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This 8 page paper examines the philosophies of these two philosophers regarding politics. There is attention to how each view the state. Modern examples are used to explore these two models.
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to be effective with its laws, but that people also need freedoms. One sees the struggle between the state and the individual all the time. It appears that in many
instances, people are afraid that their personal property rights will be impinged or that they may be stopped from speaking their minds. Today, there is a tight rope walk between
what is permissible and what is not. In the past, creativity reigned but today, students for example may be arrested simply for speaking about violence. It seems that the
state now suggests that even the ideation of violence is the same thing as a threat. Young children are brought out of elementary schools in handcuffs at times. Of course
the latter situation is rare, but not unheard of. To an extent, the states desire to protect the populous sometimes significantly affects individual rights. When examining political thought, many old
thinkers from different centuries crop up. What might John Locke or Aristotle have had to say about the state? The political theories of Locke and Aristotle, in respect to the
state, are fundamentally different but do share some similarities. 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 a writing that
is rather compelling and in fact, free choice and libertarianism seem to be a theme in this work. Locke (1690) writes: "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
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