Natural Law
According to Locke the expression "natural rights" means a validity prior to the formation of the State, that is, a category of law that refers to everyone, to the extent that materializes in the so-called "State of nature". In this sense, natural law in Locke differs from any other kind of law we can wake up, is it assumes the existence of a State, consensus or any political power. The concept of State of nature, in Book Two Treatises of Government appears with a close connection with the concept of natural law as one can observe a transcendental character that justifies this category of law. The link between this metaphysics seized by Locke in contrast the attempted justification of the so-called "humans rights", based on a reformulation of the concept of State.
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For the philosopher, God created men as equal and independent, therefore, dismissing the possibility of mutual aggression between them. In spite of not allowing mutual aggression. According to Locke, the right to life allows everyone the right to self-defense, as a consequence of the prohibition of aggression to the divine human life. The world is divine and it belongs to. If men were born equal, no individual particularly considered has power over others. In the sense Hobbes, freedom is the absence of external impediments (applies to things and people). Therefore, if the lack of mobility stems from the Constitution of the thing itself or living creature, it is not a question of lack of freedom, but of lack of strength to move (the stone at rest and the crippled man would be good examples). Free is the man who, in the things you do thanks to its strength and ingenuity, is not prevented from doing what you feel like do. To Locke, the right to freedom forbids some men, through a hierarchy of power, act under pressure of others. Exercising freedom is acting fully rational
According to Locke the expression "natural rights" means a validity prior to the formation of the State, that is, a category of law that refers to everyone, to the extent that materializes in the so-called "State of nature". In this sense, natural law in Locke differs from any other kind of law we can wake up, is it assumes the existence of a State, consensus or any political power. The concept of State of nature, in Book Two Treatises of Government appears with a close connection with the concept of natural law as one can observe a transcendental character that justifies this category of law. The link between this metaphysics seized by Locke in contrast the attempted justification of the so-called "humans rights", based on a reformulation of the concept of State.
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For the philosopher, God created men as equal and independent, therefore, dismissing the possibility of mutual aggression between them. In spite of not allowing mutual aggression. According to Locke, the right to life allows everyone the right to self-defense, as a consequence of the prohibition of aggression to the divine human life. The world is divine and it belongs to. If men were born equal, no individual particularly considered has power over others. In the sense Hobbes, freedom is the absence of external impediments (applies to things and people). Therefore, if the lack of mobility stems from the Constitution of the thing itself or living creature, it is not a question of lack of freedom, but of lack of strength to move (the stone at rest and the crippled man would be good examples). Free is the man who, in the things you do thanks to its strength and ingenuity, is not prevented from doing what you feel like do. To Locke, the right to freedom forbids some men, through a hierarchy of power, act under pressure of others. Exercising freedom is acting fully rational