This is Philosophy Bites with me David Edmonds.

And me, Nigel Warburton.

Just kidding. It's the pan sidecast.

Born in Somerset, England, 1632 in dying in Essex at the age of 72 in 1704, John Locke was

amongst the most famous philosophers and political theorists of the 17th century.

Locke's main political work, two Treaties of Government, was published anonymously in 1689.

The first treatise is a sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's divine right of kings,

whilst the second treaty outlines Locke's ideas of civilised society based on natural rights and contract theory.

Our main focus today is on the second Treaties of Government.

Locke begins by describing the state of nature, a picture much more stable than Thomas Hobbes' state of nature, war of every man against every man.

Locke argues that all men are created equal in the state of nature by God.

He proceeds by explaining the hypothetical rise of property and civilization, in the process explaining that only legitimate

governments are those consented to by the people. For many, the language of the second

treaties of government echoes throughout the Declaration of Independence. In the words of Thomas

Jefferson, Bacon, Locke, and Newton, I consider them to be the three greatest men that have

ever lived.

In part one, we're looking at the state of nature, part two, property, part three, civil society,

and part four, further analysis and discussion. Hello and welcome to episode 22 of the Pan Scicast on John Locke's political philosophy.

I'm Jack Symes and I'm joined once again by Mr. Andrew Horton.

Hello. And Mr. Oli-Mali as well. Hello. How be the fruit of thy labour mixing?

Well, very well, thank you very much. I'm making some lovely cider for the summer.

And I'm happy because my labour is almost done two weeks until the end of the school year, Jack.

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