Difference between revisions of "The worthless Lockean Fable of Initial Acquisition"
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This is a religious belief, a particular interpretation of some sacred texts. It has no more force than a king's declaration that he is appointed by god to rule a land. | This is a religious belief, a particular interpretation of some sacred texts. It has no more force than a king's declaration that he is appointed by god to rule a land. | ||
== yet every man has a property in his own person: == | == yet every man has a property in his own person: == | ||
| − | Yet another unjustifiable natural rights assertion that certainly didn't hold in Locke's era of widespread slavery, monarchy, and patriarchy. Property is a social construct, and no society of his time or ours treated people's bodies as their own property: there were always major differences. Locke does not explain or defend this view in any way: he merely expects us to nod our heads in agreement. | + | Yet another unjustifiable natural rights assertion that certainly didn't hold in Locke's era of widespread slavery, monarchy, and patriarchy. Indeed, Locke himself was active in the slave trade. Property is a social construct, and no society of his time or ours treated people's bodies as their own property: there were always major differences. Locke does not explain or defend this view in any way: he merely expects us to nod our heads in agreement. |
== this no body has any right to but himself. == | == this no body has any right to but himself. == | ||
Excepting slaves, women, children, servants, employees, lower classes, prisoners, etc. But perhaps this was aspirational, what he would like, as opposed to reality. | Excepting slaves, women, children, servants, employees, lower classes, prisoners, etc. But perhaps this was aspirational, what he would like, as opposed to reality. | ||
