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On John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government (1690).
What makes political power legitimate? Like Hobbes, Locke thinks that things are less than ideal without a society to keep people from killing us, so we implicitly sign a social contract giving power to the state. But for Locke, nature’s not as bad, so the state is given less power. But how much less? And what does Locke think about tea partying, kids, women, acorns, foreign travelers, and calling dibs?
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Running Time: 1 hr., 34 min. Recorded: April 3, 2011. Participants: Mark, Seth, and Sabrina Weiss
As a bonus, your purchase includes a high-bitrate mp3 of the song that concludes the episode, “Lock Them Away,” by Mark Lint and the Madison Lint Ensemble (2003).
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