Many philosophers have contemplated on the freedoms that men should naturally have simply for being human. Among those are the right to self-preserve and the right to equality. Along with these freedoms believed by a handful of philosophers to be God-given rights, complementary government hierarchies are set up for the good of the people and also to protect these freedoms. Without the government systems, humans would spiral into chaos and disorder; this is why it is necessary to have a government set up. Because humans are incapable of living together harmoniously, Rousseau/Thoreau, Hobbes, and Locke discuss different types of government systems, or lack thereof, discussed in their writings, all still impede on the natural freedoms that men
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He sees government as a way of protecting the rights of the people and without it, humans would go back to a state of nature without any structure, where freedoms would crumble and danger would be abundant. For this reason, he sees it necessary to form a government that will provide order in …show more content…
This correlates with self-preservation. All men have the right to the things that provide happiness and survival; this includes life, liberty, and estate. The government system that Locke proposes allows men the right to their property. However, he does have certain restrictions that will benefit the greater good: one should not be greedy with property and should allow other’s the chance to property. In this way, self-preservation is not entirely unlimited with Locke’s ideas of government, but the restrictions that are made are not unfair in any way and still provide a vast degree of self-preservation. Locke also states that a perfect society is “a state also of equality, wherein all the power of jurisdiction is mutual, no one having more than another” (32). He uses this model to construct the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the government. The statue of nature, as Locke says, lacks “an established, settled, known law…, a known and impartial judge with authority to determine all difference according to the established law…, [and] power to back and support the sentence when right” (36). The dispersion of power across three units of government creates a checks and balances system, where no branch has too much power and the equality of the people is not compromised. Also, the laws that are designed are
He sees government as a way of protecting the rights of the people and without it, humans would go back to a state of nature without any structure, where freedoms would crumble and danger would be abundant. For this reason, he sees it necessary to form a government that will provide order in …show more content…
This correlates with self-preservation. All men have the right to the things that provide happiness and survival; this includes life, liberty, and estate. The government system that Locke proposes allows men the right to their property. However, he does have certain restrictions that will benefit the greater good: one should not be greedy with property and should allow other’s the chance to property. In this way, self-preservation is not entirely unlimited with Locke’s ideas of government, but the restrictions that are made are not unfair in any way and still provide a vast degree of self-preservation. Locke also states that a perfect society is “a state also of equality, wherein all the power of jurisdiction is mutual, no one having more than another” (32). He uses this model to construct the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the government. The statue of nature, as Locke says, lacks “an established, settled, known law…, a known and impartial judge with authority to determine all difference according to the established law…, [and] power to back and support the sentence when right” (36). The dispersion of power across three units of government creates a checks and balances system, where no branch has too much power and the equality of the people is not compromised. Also, the laws that are designed are