John locke state of nature
John locke beliefs on government.
Property and Ownership
1. Issues of Analysis and Definition
More than most policy areas dealt with by political philosophers, the discussion of property is beset with definitional difficulties.
The first issue is to distinguish between property and private property.
Strictly speaking, ‘property’ is a general term for the rules that govern people’s access to and control of things like land, natural resources, the means of production, manufactured goods, and also (on some accounts) texts, ideas, inventions, and other intellectual products.
John locke theory of knowledge
Disagreements about their use are likely to be serious because resource-use matters to people. They are particularly serious where the objects in question are both scarce and necessary. Some have suggested that property relations only make sense under conditions of scarcity (Hume [] , pp.
–98). But other grounds of conflict are possible: there may be disagreements about how a given piece of land should be used, which ste
