John Locke Natural Rights

From the point of view of political people, they can be in a stable condition according to Locke that is the state of natural. In the state of nature, there is not exist any of the establishment of the state, therefore, there are no requirements of optimistic law. In his theory, everyone in this state is free, equal and independent. (Steven, 2010). However, all people are free does no mean that they have freedom to do anything they like or they want. People are not free to violate and break the law of nature (Lloyd, 1995). In the natural state permitting, people have the freedom to do whatever they want to do. For instance, A man has his right to life, B man has a right to angry with A man, but B man do not have right to do anything which would …show more content…
For Locke, he claimed that people have two fundamental natural rights, which are ‘first-order’ natural right, and ‘second-order’ natural right. Meanwhile, Locke permits that there are might some violation about the natural rights of others. (Aaron, 1971). For example, generally speaking, in the event of, if somebody transgress your the right of nature, not only you can have the right that this shouldn’t happen, but also you have a ‘second-order’ right to effort to implement your ‘first-order’ right. (Lloyd, 1995) the simple example to further explain this theory, as a human, you have the right to speaking and it is your ‘first-order’ right, nevertheless, someone violates your right to speaking, you can use your second-order right to attempt to enforce your first-order right. In addition, what is the meaning about “all persons are equal” in Locke’s view, Firstly, in the natural state, all people have same series of natural rights, but it is not included the children, lunatics and idiots. (Lloyd, 1995). Simply but, person have those natural rights from being human being. Likewise, the equality of all people in the natural state refers to the thought that person who lives in the state of nature to