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 * John Locke**
 * http://www.island-of-freedom.com/LOCKE.HTM**


 * http://www.island-of-freedom.com/LOCKE.HTM**


 * John Locke was born on Aug. 29, 1632,In Somerset, England.**
 * He died in Oates on oct.28, 1704.He is From England.**


 * http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/**

JOHN LOCKE NATURAL RIGHTS: During the nineteenth century the advocates of limitless state power made a comeback with new rhetoric, (the utilitarians) or the same old rhetoric dressed in new clothes), and in the twentieth century they were politically successful, but militarily unsuccessful. The absolutists keep adopting new names as each old name starts to stink, but in the nineteenth century, the time when they were intellectually most successful, they mostly called themselves romantics, identifying themselves with the then fashionable artistic and cultural movement, although most of the political “romantics” were no more talented at poetry or painting than Hitler was, and most of the real romantics were not political absolutists, far from it. When the fascists came to power these totally disappeared, mostly calling themselves relativists. The name relativist failed to shake the stink of the gas ovens where the Jews were exterminated, and they are changing it yet again. Since the extermination camps set up again, in what used to be Yugoslavia, relativists have almost disappeared. Soon there will be few relativists, they will all be Post Modernists, or some such.He was trying said that he was the greatest men at the time.
 * John Locke work is characterized by opposition to** **authoritarianism.**
 * Also, he wants us to proportion assent to propositions to the evidence for them.**
 * Locke was an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a revolutionary movement. He wanted to studied voluminous,** **philosophical, scientific, and political.He was one of the greatest philosophers in europe at the of seventeenth century.**
 * http://jim.com/rights.html**

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Often a “positive right” is in practice the precise opposite of a right. A “negative right” is the right to be left alone, for example “An Englishman's home is his castle”, “freedom of speech”. A “positive right” is usually a government guarantee that it will supervise, direct, and control you for your own good, for example the “right to employment”, of which Marxists are so fond. (Or used to be fond back in the days when Marxists existed outside American universities.) You will notice that the “right to employment” enjoyed by the workers on Cuban sugar plantations is in practice very similar to the “right to employment” that they enjoyed when they were slaves on those plantations. If they run away from the employment that the benevolent state has so kindly assigned to them, they will be hunted down, and, if captured, returned, beaten, and set to work again. In the same way the “right to employment” enjoyed by the workers on Russian collective farms was very similar to the “right to employment” that they enjoyed on these farms when they were serfs. Of course these modern slaves also have the “right” to a guaranteed fair wage, and so forth. Unfortunately they are not guaranteed that there will be anything in the shops for them to buy with their guaranteed fair wages. Indeed in rural areas they are not guaranteed there will be any shops at all. They are not permitted to go to the shops that the elite goes to, and they are not permitted to travel any significant distance from their place of employment, rendering their “salaries” utterly meaningless. “Positive rights” ape the forms of a free society, without the substance. http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Locke.htm#Quotes

Quote: John Locke. “§ "Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided." (Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693, sec. 54.)