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40 Teaser | What is Liberalism? Part I. John Locke's Second Treatise of Government

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Purpose of a Government

Liberalism is a kind of homo economics in the state of nature, whose fundamental passions are like walle sike ya. The only right i see here is the rights of property - that's it. And so when youlike think then about, like, ok, what a government is supposed to do? Deeman: My man's not talking about infrstructure. He's just figuring out how to punish people who violate the regime of private property.

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