{"id":684,"date":"2025-02-04T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2025-02-04T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:57:59","slug":"lockes-second-treatise-chapter-15-analysis-and-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Locke&#8217;s Second Treatise, Chapter 15, Analysis and Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-15:a?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Chapter 15 is mostly a short summary and restatement of Locke&#8217;s definitions of three different types of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">However, there are a few nuggets of new ideas here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">1) Locke&#8217;s conception of &#8220;Despotical&#8221; power is <em>not<\/em> universally negative, as our use of despotic typically is today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">2) The three different types of legitimate power here can be distinguished by how they occur: paternal by nature, political by consent, and despotical by forfeiture (due to legitimate self defense against an unjust invader)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">3) The three different types of power differ in who they operate on: paternal operates between someone with property (the parent) on someone who is not yet capable of managing property, but will be eventually (the child); political operates between property holders; and despotical operates from a property owner upon one who has been stripped of the right to property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-15:a\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Xu3cG8ICMPk\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/GMnUWT0pjLhv\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music adapted from a piece by Dvir Silver, courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/sonican-38947841\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/sonican-38947841\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 15 is mostly a short summary and restatement of Locke&#8217;s definitions of three different types of power. However, there are a few nuggets of new ideas here: 1) Locke&#8217;s conception of &#8220;Despotical&#8221; power is not universally negative, as our use of despotic typically is today 2) The three different types of legitimate power here [&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":[235,151,86,193,237,60,19,85,236,72,199,202],"class_list":["post-684","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-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\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/685"}],"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=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}