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A 5 page paper discussing the different attitudes Marx and Locke had regarding the issue of private property. Bibliography lists three sources.
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something is to own it" ( Funk & Wagnalls.1994). English philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704) believed that the only reason society degenerates to armed conflict and strife is because of
a depletion of the essential ingredients of an individual or a communitys self-preservation. Those ingredients, according to the Second Treatise include: the right to private property which is grounded
in the exercise of the virtues of rationality and industry; the powers of government must be separated because virtue is always in short supply, but prerogative, which depends on virtue
in judgment, must be retained by the executive because of the necessary imperfections of the rule of law; and, the right of resistance to illegitimate government presupposes the exercise of
restraint and rational judgment by the people (Locke, 29-34). For Locke, labors most valuable function is that it does more than simply define a division between what is private and
what is public. He believes that it is labor that creates value and turns something that was fundamentally worthless into something of worth. For example, Locke presents the
opinion that land without labor put into it is "scarcely worth anything." He also notes that, "nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials as in themselves."
It is labor, and thus the laborer "that puts the difference of value on everything." Locke answers the question of whether or not a person has a right to acquire
as much as he wants? The answer is a simple "no;" "As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so
much he may by his labor fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man
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