"According to Locke, the State of Nature, the
natural condition of mankind, is a state of perfect and complete liberty to
conduct one's life as one best sees fit, free from the interference of others.
This does not mean, however, that it is a state of license: one is not free to
do anything at all one please, or even anything that one judges to be in one's
interest." - page 1, paragraph 3.
-In the phrase, "The natural condition of
mankind... free from interference of others", the author pressed hard on the key point that human are born
with nature ability, human automatically would find out the best environment
they want to live in. The understanding of human allowed them to have good
decision on how to survive and live well.
-In the phrase, "This does not mean... one judge to be in one's interest." It's people's rights to do what they want, but there's a limit of that. It's unlawful to harm others and against human's rights. For example, in other hand, the U.S Government allows citizens to have freedom speeches, in the other hand, it's against the laws speak of hate (really hate on other groups). The author, Friend, wants to show that Locke a person who is on the balance scale of justice. The author expressed that Locke cares about humans rights and freedom, there is the rights for human to do what they are interested in but also have a limit of what would they do. Humans need to be wise to make the right decisions.
"The State of Nature is pre-political, but it
is not pre-moral." - page 1, paragraph 3.
-In this phrase text, the author meant "pre-political, but it is not pre-moral, humans are born with their moral, rights and freedom, treat others kind and well. Thus, without government, State of Nature is still there, people know what's right to do. The author uses this quote as a reminder to people, pre means before, in case of using pre for his sentence, pre-political means before having the government. Therefore, he said but not pre-moral, understand that the State of Nature is, humans are born with moral.
-In this phrase text, the author meant "pre-political, but it is not pre-moral, humans are born with their moral, rights and freedom, treat others kind and well. Thus, without government, State of Nature is still there, people know what's right to do. The author uses this quote as a reminder to people, pre means before, in case of using pre for his sentence, pre-political means before having the government. Therefore, he said but not pre-moral, understand that the State of Nature is, humans are born with moral.
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