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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
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l’intervention de John Millar, défenseur de premier plan des Lumières écossaises, est particulièrement incisive : « Il est étrange que les mêmes individus qui parlent avec un style raffiné de liberté politique et qui considèrent comme l’un des droits inaliénables de l’humanité le droit d’imposer des taxes, n’aient aucun scrupule à réduire une grand
... See moreBernard Chamayou • Contre-histoire du libéralisme (POCHES ESSAIS t. 416) (French Edition)
JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) is the apostle of the Revolution of 1688, the most moderate and the most successful of all revolutions.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

Sam Harris | #338 - The Sin of Moral Equivalence
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