Anyone have read about the philospher John Locke?

[JohnLocke]

Only in recent years did I come across him when I became interested in where liberalism actually came from. I am a big supporter of liberalism and I also cultivate it in both my private but also business life.

FYI John Locke - Wikipedia

 

[Spinat]

Most people in the business world follow his philosophy, this is not entirely new. I am a big supporter of liberalism as I believe that every human being should have his freedom to decide. I do not bother to be monitored, I do not bother the banks to see what I spend money on, I do not bother at all for the government to film me wherever I am.

Isn't that what OffshoreCorptalk is all about?

 

[khinkali]

Locke certainly paved the way for many great thinkers.

There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding now about people with classical liberal/neoliberal/libertarian leanings that it's all about wanting to be free to do what you want, rather than respecting other peoples' freedoms.

 

[happyjohn]

I am a big supporter of liberalism and I also cultivate it in both my private but also business life.

second that. I have never thought about where liberalism came from or whether there was some philosopher behind it. Now I want to spend some time reading about John Locke.

 

[Clip]

He was one of my idols

 

[JohnLocke]

Not really that guy

We just published something about him here The philosophy behind OffshoreCorpTalk.com is similar to that of John Locke

 

[tacokai]

He was one of my idols

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that's the damn wrong guy

 

[blizz]

I know what you mean

Which one would you hit John Locke or Ayn Rand

 

[ih8socialism]

of course, a lot of people here I think we share a liberal/libertarian point of view....
But I am more fan of Ayn Rand,Hakey,Rothbard and Friedman

One of my favorite ideas for friedman tbh

 

[VESTANON]

He was one of my idols

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@GiGoGo an offshore island, filled to the brim with Dark treasures and anonymous liberals you mean....

 

[VESTANON]

I know what you mean
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Which one would you hit John Locke or Ayn Rand

At the look of things...i rather just going sailing....but the real john locke would suffice..

not the Lost:john locke looking into the eye of an Island...

 

[EliasIT]

One of my favorite ideas for friedman tbh

I like him

 

[peter taradash]

A friend ( smarter than me) , wrote this about John Locke ...
(Locke, John - by Paul Rosenberg)
He was an English philosopher in the 1600's who created a new justification for human liberty and he envisioned a republic -- a form of political organization. He did this by examining what humans were like in their “natural state.” That is, what they were like before they were herded into political groups and compelled to live as rulers demanded.

He explained this in a book called the Second Treatise on Government, published anonymously in 1689. (Locke’s name never appeared on the book during his lifetime, almost certainly because he feared for his personal safety.)

In his book Locke begins by saying that humans are naturally free of all obligations, political or otherwise, writing this:
All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
He went on the explain how such people could join together to form a government, but only through voluntary agreement. He moreover explains how they or their children could exit the agreement. Forward-thinking and oppressed people took Locke’s ideas and began applying them. In particular, they began imagining republics based upon that foundation. (These people had no interest in democracies, which had failed spectacularly in Greece.)

Republics had existed in several places, especially during and following the Renaissance, but they had stood upon Roman ideas from the era of slavery, and held too many of those assumptions. Locke gave people a way to build a republic upon the base of human liberty and choice.

And so, in the British Colonies of America, a Lockean republic formed in 1776. The American founders knew Locke’s arguments very well, reciting them and praising them at length. And even though the successful American experiment of dumping the monarch was followed by a disastrous French experiment, the idea of leaving the king for a rights-protecting republic spread through the world and swept most European monarchies away over the next century or so.
Submitted by Peter Taradash 10 Dec. 2023