{"id":670,"date":"2024-12-19T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:00:38","slug":"lockes-second-treatise-chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Locke&#8217;s Second Treatise, Chapter 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-chapter-6:6?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Chapter Six is titled &#8220;Of Paternal Power,&#8221; but actually it covers a bit more than that, seeking not only to explore the limits of paternal (or, as Locke might have it, &#8220;parental&#8221;) power and show how it differs from political power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">However, here we also find Locke deviating somewhat from his desired goal of a government by consent. He makes a few crucial assumptions and moves in the direction of &#8220;implied&#8221; consent, vis a vis allegiance to governments, although not to the degree that Rousseau pushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">What we learn here is that the primary &#8220;implication&#8221; that leads to consent of governance is the ownership of land, but Locke has side-stepped any argument about why governments <em>must <\/em>maintain a monopoly on land ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">All this and more in the video, which is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-chapter-6:6\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/a1hJZPc_Mrs\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/Xt25eA9LRlAd\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter Six is titled &#8220;Of Paternal Power,&#8221; but actually it covers a bit more than that, seeking not only to explore the limits of paternal (or, as Locke might have it, &#8220;parental&#8221;) power and show how it differs from political power. However, here we also find Locke deviating somewhat from his desired goal of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,2],"tags":[235,151,86,193,237,19,85,236,72,199],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-political","category-video-link","tag-a-treatise-of-government","tag-classical-liberalism","tag-freedom","tag-john-locke","tag-liberalism","tag-liberty","tag-philosophy","tag-political-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-study-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John_Locke-e1732667580896.jpg?fit=727%2C423&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}