On Locke's First Treatise of Gov't


	On Locke's First Treatise of Gov't

akarra

5-3-2008 8:53 PM

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locke, politics, government, first treatise, slavery

akarra says:

A blogger looks carefully at the full significance of Locke beginning his treatise with the word "slavery." How, in deliberating types of gov't, can we enslave ourselves?

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