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This 8 page paper evaluates Locke's political theory and how it relates to property. Many ideas about property are discussed, inclusive of Karl Marx's take on the matter. Private property and everything that goes along with it, including taxes, is discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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things, they are legitimately allowed to use force to protect their things. Although Christian tradition says to turn the other cheek, look the other way and so forth, the society
in general--with the exception of Communist factions--find a legitimate reason to protect property. Others ask, what is so important about property anyway? After all, people are more important than things.
While that is true, property can have personal and legitimate meanings. In Eastern philosophy, the first chakra goes to tangible and material things and is grounding. Property includes items like
pictures and wedding dresses and engagement rings and each of these things may be worth a lot or a little, but it is still private property and its true worth
is for the owner to determine. Private property should be protected. At the same time, it is an issue that one may want to ponder a bit more. Private property
is usually entrenched in a larger political philosophy. John Lockes Theory of property, for example, is related to his general political theory. John Locke "is best known for
developing an empirical approach to philosophy-that is, one in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it
pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and in fact, free choice and libertarianism seem to be a theme in this
work. Locke wrote: "To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of
perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending
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