By Donna King Carolina Journal As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, it’s worth revisiting the philosopher whose ideas made that revolution possible, and ...

Even in the area of demography there are echoes of Locke’s mercantilist populationism. Neo-Malthusian fears of global overpopulation, prevalent a few decades ago, have given way to concern about below ...

THIS excellent book on a thinker who is a classic A in philosophy will give fresh impetus to dis cussion and controversy. It is not the first part of this work, which deals adequately with Locke's ...

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The panel, “Foundations of a Right to Privacy,” was the first of several discussions at a privacy conference at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The speakers ...

In this paper I argue that we should look to Hobbes rather than to Locke as providing a philosophical forerunner of modern and current rights theories and further, that Hobbes's theory has relevance ...

As they describe themselves: The John Locke Foundation was created in 1990 as an independent, nonprofit think tank that would work “for truth, for freedom, and for the future of North Carolina.” The ...