John Locke: Liberal Champion of Natural Rights (Locke, Pt. 1)

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  • Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
  • New section of the lecture series, Foundations of Western Political Thought -- this time on John Locke, English philosopher and founder of liberalism. Locke is famous for many works, including, his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, but most especially, his Two Treatises of Government, wherein he defends a form of social contract in which the People are supreme, and in which government is obliged to respect their natural rights and whose legitimacy is grounded on the consent of the governed.
    Timecodes:
    0:00 - Intro
    2:08 - Early Life of John Locke
    5:56 - The Second Treatise of Government
    10:36 - Locke vs. Hobbes / Social Contract
    14:55 - Locke vs. Filmer / Divine Right of Kings
    21:37 - Was Locke a Libertarian?
    24:14 - Coinage and Monetary Theory
    25:08 - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
    30:37 - Religious Toleration
    33:01 - The Reasonableness of Christianity
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  • @ProfessorBarth
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  • @Grumpious_Maximus
    @Grumpious_Maximus 4 місяці тому +5

    Great to see you uploading again Professor Barth, thank you for the effort.

    • @ProfessorBarth
      @ProfessorBarth  4 місяці тому +5

      Thanks, and it's great to be back. The first three months of the school semester were especially busy, but things have stabilized enough now to free up some time for the lecture prep and recording. Thanks for watching!

  • @KeynoteWise
    @KeynoteWise Місяць тому

    You are a national treasure.... never forget!!!

  • @SteveNathn
    @SteveNathn Місяць тому +1

    Would have been very happy if you did this series a few months before you did lol. I read the second treatise for a class I was in, this would have been (and still is) extraordinarily helpful. I haven’t read a lot of older English but Locke’s writing style with his run on sentences was something I was not prepared for. Had to re read each sentence at least twice 😂 thanks for the upload, we all appreciate it

  • @daft9inety6ixer57
    @daft9inety6ixer57 4 місяці тому +2

    Nice to see you back at it! These videos are great, and your Federal Reserve update videos are well worth watching. You should do one this weekend based on what we saw this week, which will be an FOMC that will live in infamy. Beware the ides of March!

    • @ProfessorBarth
      @ProfessorBarth  4 місяці тому +1

      Yes I need to make an update video! Thanks for the encouragement.

    • @daft9inety6ixer57
      @daft9inety6ixer57 4 місяці тому

      @@ProfessorBarth Also, I don't like Bitcoin or crypto in general, but if you were to do a video on that your channel would gain visibility, if that's something you were thinking of boosting without too much effort. Something like, Gold vs Bitcoin would be a trending topic at the moment.

  • @Tryingtimes007
    @Tryingtimes007 4 місяці тому

    The moment a single thing/person have individual thought, we become a cycle of denial, our existence is only relevant when we become Ants/bees, is when our value is successful.

  • @ielZxro
    @ielZxro 4 місяці тому +1

    Waiting on your take for next inflation report, been half year! Hoping another posting once current Winter semester subdues.

  • @jimragan9432
    @jimragan9432 3 місяці тому

    natural rights/government = oxymoron.

  • @huckleberryfinn8795
    @huckleberryfinn8795 3 місяці тому

    The contract specifically states the government MUST respect Natural Rights. So it is not oxymoronic. Nobody has a ntural right to murder an innocent perso . So the government can make a law that outlaws the murder of another human. This is basic stuff here, buddy.

    • @ProfessorBarth
      @ProfessorBarth  3 місяці тому +1

      I've been getting a lot of anarcho-capitalists visiting my page recently, here and on X -- it's strange, I thought that movement pretty much petered out after 2015, but there's still a very passionate contingent of ancaps out there. I once found it appealing, but that was many years ago. It's an interesting intellectual exercise, but that's the extent of it.