What religious background did John Locke come from?
What is Puritan
100
In what year was the Second Treatise published?
What is 1690
100
What does natural law mean in terms of punishment?
What is all people under a foreign king are subject to punishment as long as it is reasonable.
100
What inalienable rights do all people have?
What is Life, Liberty, and property
100
What writing style does Locke have throughout the essay?
What is it was not rhetorical he was very clear and moved point to point.
200
Who had the most influence on Locke and his ideas?
What is his father
200
What historical event did the Second Treatise defend?
What is the Glorious Revolution
200
Where does the natural law come from?
What is it is derived from a theory of justice with a set of rights.
200
What does the law of preservation entail?
What is it says that a person may kill another person for self-defense.
200
What actions did England take to put Locke’s ideas into practice:
What is published the Bill of Rights (1689)
300
What year was he born?
What is 1632
300
Locke’s writings helped England escape from what political practice (that was taking over most of Europe at the time)?
What is absolutist monarchy
300
What is the state of war?
What is people using force against each other without common authority, but searching for common authority.
300
What is the state of nature?
What is it is a state of equality and in terms of political power in which everyone has the power to execute natural laws (universal laws)
300
How did Locke’s ideas and his Second Treatise have an influence outside of England?
What is all Constitutional forms of government, all over the world (especially USA)
400
There was religious tolerance, a rising middle class and he became involved with Englsih revolutionary leaders.
What was special about Locke’s exile to Holland?
400
What is special about Holland?
Although Protestant, Holland had all of the qualities of Locke’s philosophy such as religious tolerance, early liberalism, rising middle class, belief that all men are born equal.
400
What two important political groups does Locke introduce?
What is he introduces the legislative power to come up with laws and the executive power to enforce those laws.
400
What is the difference between natural liberty and social liberty?
What is Natural liberty: person’s right to be ruled under the laws of nature Social liberty: Right to be under no political power unless it is consented by majority of the people.
400
How does Locke view slavery?
What is he called slavery as an extension of the state of war. He also says that the relationship between a master and a slave (paternal) is invalid.
500
This person, a political activist himself, credits Locke with saving his life after Locke performed an operation on him.
What is the Earl of Shaftesbury
500
Which two systems of Government did Locke see, in England during his lifetime?
What are Constitutional monarchy and Parliamentary democracy.
500
When a government is dissolved what is the right of the people?
What is it is the people’s right to reform the government in a way in which the people are happy so they are not subject to tyrannical rule later.
500
When a government no longer works, it can be replaced.
What were Locke’s thoughts on the dissolution of government?
500
What intellectual movements did Locke’s ideas influence (in Europe and otherwise)?
What is 18th-century liberalism and the Enlightenment