Society, Politics & Law
Should we read John Locke today?
...Article 3 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, upon which the modern idea of human rights is based: ‘Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.’ Or apologist for slavery? [First page of the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina]You have seen then that John Locke’s ideas inspired a lot of modern thinking about equality and...