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In Jiang’s telling, Locke, Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, and Freud each help remove the divine and reframe life around property, experience, utility, class, animality, or sex.
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Locke
Jiang presents Locke's social contract as a government whose purpose is to protect life, liberty, and property, with property becoming an engine for wealth accumulation and English power.
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Jiang presents Locke's social contract as a government whose purpose is to protect life, liberty, and property, with property becoming an engine for wealth accumulation and English power.
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Jiang argues that Jefferson’s Declaration largely copies Locke: rights come from God, government protects them, and failed government may be abolished.
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Locke accepts the need for government but makes legitimacy conditional on preserving inalienable rights: life, liberty, and property.
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Jiang says Locke's ideas become the basis for the U.S. Constitution and the Anglo-American political tradition.
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The first British-European Enlightenment difference is anthropology: Locke's blank slate versus Rousseau's and Kant's belief in innate goodness and natural reason.
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Jiang says Rousseau's line of thinking gives rise to communism and Nazism, while Locke's gives rise to the U.S. Constitution.
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"...money is God okay and these include um sorry uh John Locke who argued that private property is a God -given right okay it..."
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"then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything..."
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"okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must..."
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"Which is to say, the world is one of class struggle. It's not between God and us. It's not between the divine and the..."
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"...and there are two major theorists okay the first is john locke who of course is english and for him government it's very simple..."
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"China and France do you get it that's okay too because it happened elsewhere okay all right so part of property and as you..."
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"The Russians are here as well. But over time, the Americans will push everyone out. And this is what they call Manifest Destiny. Okay?..."
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"...United States, he is just copying, word for word, basically, John Locke's book, The Second Treatise of Government. Okay? This is what John Locke..."
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"Parliament he's a supporter of the glorious revolution okay and he writes something called so 1688 is March Revolution in 1689 he will publish..."
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"...challenge it because if you do things will get much worse Locke is saying government is only legitimate if it guarantees us our inalienable..."
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"...local philosophy and European political philosophy okay the first is this Locke believes that we are born tabula rasa the blank slate okay which..."
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"...so that's a huge difference, right? Second major difference is this. Locke believes the purpose of society is liberty. Liberty just means you are..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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