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Rufus F.
Hopefully, nobody else wanted this honor. I haven’t done it in a while. Plus, the Reverend Horton Heat played at my favorite bar on Wednesday and I was the DJ for the night, spinning old rockabilly, blues, gospel, rock’n'roll, and garage rock records in between the bands. The Reverend sent his complements on the music, so I’m doing it again for their show tonight. My complements for the good Rev’s music too!
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[Note: No promises, but this post will likely make more sense if you first read my post on Hobbes's Leviathan. There will not be an exam.]
Okay, so previously, I said that the neat contrast that’s often drawn between Locke and Hobbes doesn’t really work so well because they’re not as far apart as one might think. Let’s not go too far with this though; there are some differences there, which are worth looking at in Locke’s Second Treatise on Government.
Today, most readers will skip the First Treatise because here Locke dismantles Sir Robert Filmer’s argument that the right to rule was inherited directly by certain men from Adam’s dominion over the earth via the male line; one can imagine how much esteem that argument is held in today, or even how many of us remember Sir Robert Filmer. But it does set up the Second Treatise: if political power wasn’t inherited from the first man, where does it come from? Where did people ever get the notion to set themselves above one another? Continue reading this post…
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