John Locke · Politics

Property and Labour

How Locke justified private property through the mixing of labour - and how the same argument ended up sanctioning vast inequality and colonial dispossession.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Locke grounds private property in labour, hedged by two limits. State the labour argument and the two provisos, and say how money was used to escape them.

Leads to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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