{"id":678,"date":"2025-01-14T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:44:53","slug":"lockes-second-treatise-chapter-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Locke&#8217;s Second Treatise, Chapter 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-11:e?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">At long last, Locke is getting around to outlining the limits of proper government. He&#8217;s hinted at many of these limitations in earlier chapters, but he tries to lay them all out here at once, even at the risk of being repetitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Unfortunately, we find a few instances of sloppy or open-ended language in this chapter that leave significant openings for a government to change from something at least somewhat legitimate into a downright tyranny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Locke reminds us over and over that the Society\/Commonwealth must be better than the State of Nature, but he hasn&#8217;t offered us many ways to deal with tyranny other than to make sure it doesn&#8217;t happen! He&#8217;ll cover tyranny in a later chapter, but the language here gives the government a few dangerous openings and offers it far too great a sense of permanence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music edited from &#8220;Price of Freedom&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/good_b_music-22836301\/\">Zakhar Valaha<\/a>, royalty-free via Pixabay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-11:e\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FX7kblXSYOU\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/GBQKpppFH9nf\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, Locke is getting around to outlining the limits of proper government. He&#8217;s hinted at many of these limitations in earlier chapters, but he tries to lay them all out here at once, even at the risk of being repetitive. Unfortunately, we find a few instances of sloppy or open-ended language in this [&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":[235,151,193,237,60,19,85,236,72,199,202],"class_list":["post-678","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-john-locke","tag-liberalism","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-philosophy","tag-political-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-study-guide","tag-voluntaryism"],"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\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/679"}],"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=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}