Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Locke

  • Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Destructive Dems

    New, improved, updated.  Top o' the Stack.  A call to action. Get off your lazy butts and do something for the great Republic that has made it possible for you to live a good life. What are you, an ingrate? Do you have children, grandchildren? Don't you want them to have a good life?  Are…

  • Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Democrats

    I was once a Democrat. They changed for the worse; I changed for the better. Substack latest.

  • Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Democrats

    The main purposes of government are to protect life, liberty, and property. Subsidiary purposes are subordinate to the Lockean triad. This is lost on the present-day  Democrat party which has been hijacked by the hard Left.  Despite what they say, they are anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-property. So if you value life, liberty, and property, then…

  • If We Lose Locke, We Lose America

    Ben Shapiro, Prager U, 5:05.

  • Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Democrats

    The main purpose of government is to protect life, liberty, and property. Subsidiary purposes are subordinate to the Lockean triad.  The Democrats, however, are anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-property.  So if you value life, liberty, and property, then you must not vote for any Democrat. The Republicans in their timid way do stand for life, liberty,…

  • John Locke on the Right to Self-Defense

    Let's go through the drill one more time. You have a natural right to life. This right to life entails in others a moral obligation not to harm you. Should anyone attempt to do so, you yourself have a right, directly and not via the invocation of the help of a police agency,  to defend…

  • Locke, James, Doxastic Voluntarism and Two Bases of Toleration

    The topic of doxastic voluntarism is proving to be fascinating indeed. It is interestingly related to the topic of toleration about which I have something to say in On Toleration: With a Little Help from Kolakowski, in The Danger of Appeasing the Intolerant, and in Toleration and its Limits. Let us begin today's meditation with…