lock test ethics

1. What school of ethics is lock part of?

Social Contract theory

2. What does locke call man’s existence outside society

State of nature  (people are reasonable)

3. Locke claims three inalienable rights

 Life, liberty, property

4. Locke claims you own your body, anything you mix your labor with becomes your property. Show it’s yours by fencing it in.

5. What does, “Leave well enough and good left in common for others” mean?

Don’t take more land than you need

6. Locke cites certain Inconveniences in State of Nature that force men out of it

• Marauders (people that come and take your stuff) 

• Overzealous punishments (ex. Killing someone for stealing a sheep)

7. When you enter into society, you give up pieces of rights 

• Military (life)

• Law (Liberty)

• Taxes (Property)

• Ex ; Jails/judges -> self defense 

8. What do you have to give in order to form society

• consent

9. How does Locke justify slavery

• “ If you Capture someone in a just war, they can be enslaved.”

10. How does locke leave door open for accumulation of wealth (and capitalism) 

• He endorses a system of money, you can take more than you need (sell excess)