John Locke, Political Power and Locke’s Law of Nature
Political Power According to Locke Lock’s First Treatise of Government is dedicated to ‘detecting and overthrowing the false principles of Sir Robert Filmer,’ advocate of the divine right of Monarchs, and necessarily, one whose view of mankind is anything but egalitarian. After shredding Filmer at length, Locke moves to his Second Treatise of Government, setting…