But modern philosophers such as René Descartes, John Locke and Thomas Hobbs began to chip away at it. Hill, an atheist-turned-Catholic, argues in AFTER THE NATURAL LAW that without a theory of ...

There is a dispute going on in the blogs over John Locke ... the law of nature.” Thus, to the extent that chapters 18 & 19 are relevant, they tend to support, rather than undercut, a natural ...

John Locke was a leading philosopher ... a key source of wealth creation and that property was a natural right resulting from work. Locke balanced both capitalist and socialist ideas in his ...

Arguably no philosopher had a greater influence on America’s founding than John Locke ... No. Look, if you take the issue of natural rights, which Locke was a real pioneer in making the case ...

THE tercentenary of the birth of John Locke occurred on Aug. 29 last, and to mark the event Messrs. J. and E. Bumpas, Ltd., have brought together at the Old Court House, Oxford Street, London ...

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Concerned about the moral laxity of Restoration England, the wealthy landowner and politician Edward Clarke turned to his lifelong friend John Locke for advice about how to raise his son.

It pits the individual natural rights philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704 ... be subject to criminal sanction and the attention of law enforcement. The inability of law enforcement to suppress ...

John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher ... people can accumulate more than they need without violating natural law. Moreover, when people agreed to use money as a form of exchange ...