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Locke’s breakthrough — unimagined even by Christian thinkers as formidable as Thomas Aquinas — was to combine the classical view of natural law with the concept of inalienable rights. In his Two Treatises of Government (1689), Locke identified these rights as “life, liberty, and property.” He drew from the Scriptures, as well as from Cicero, to arg

John Locke, who held that individuals had a right to turn natural resources that belonged to no one into individual property for personal use, through labor. The Lockean idea justified all manner of accomplishments and violations in American history, including the colonial seizure of Native lands and the justification of resource extraction via the

John Locke (1632-1704), philosophe anglais du XVIIe siècle, était empiriste. Cela veut dire que, selon lui, les Idées innées n’existent pas et que tout s’acquiert par l’expérience sensible dans l’environnement. Les expériences et sensations de l’enfant vont dès lors s’imprimer sur une « table rase » qui est l’état de départ du développement,