John+Lockes+Publications

John Locke's Publications spanned from the 1650's to the the 1700's. His first manuscript was a collection of medical notes and prescriptions. The series Essay concerning Human Understanding had eight edits. Out of those eight edits there were only two were found. The first publication to be discussed is The __Two Treatise of Government__. This book was a response to Robert Filmers __Patriarcha__. The short version is this book said that Robert Filmer views on humans and government was foolish because people are not natural born slaves to Godlike kings. The __Second Treatise of Civil Government__ was his solution discussing what a acceptable government is for the people even though they are all used to a theocracy, monarchy, dictatorship, etc. The book goes on for nineteen chapters.

Chapter 1- In this chapter John Locke writes about the definition of political power and what it encases. To be brief, he writes that political power is the privilege to make laws that protect peoples natural property(rights). He also writes that it can only work if the masses accept the laws written. Chapter 2- In this chapter he talks about freedoms and it being natural/ our own from birth. He discusses that we all have rights due to being alive to do as we wish with our property and that we are free because of being alive. Also that being a human even in the most lawless of states that we still have natural laws to follow. Another thing is we have the right to protect these rights because we are all Gods children Chapter 3 & 4- In this section he describes the differences of The state of war, and a state of nature. A state of nature is all living together with knowledge and order. A state of war is created when a side exerts force or instability. The wars in society and wars in nature are indeed different he wrote. Seeing as The War in society ends when one side looses, they both concede to a higher authority, or the aggressor stops causing chaos and instability. The Wars in Nature only ends whenm the aggressor decides to quit and help the side it attacked to rebuild.

so on and so on. So these books show us rights that we hold to heart and hold for granted here. They all point to freedom.

On of his greater works was __An Essay Concerning Human Understanding__.This was in at least eight books. Them all discussing at one point or another how people understand things and how we express them through religion, speech, art, literature,etc. and in some of them the difference between ignorance and Mental illness.

The final work in this section is __A Essay Concerning Tolerance__. This was written to be presented to a king by his good friend Lord Ashley. He also performed an operation on Ashley's liver during this time. This essay was about his views of people. That they should be able to Worship freely and that no man can say that he is an envoy to god because it should be up for free interpretation. He then goes on to inform the king through this piece of literature that anyone who is a self proclaimed prophet of bishop will make rules and use thus rule for profiteering and happens everywhere.

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