Lockeans

Crypto-Spinozans [who have largely replaced crypto-Lockeans] claim that final causes are merely a "projection" into nature of our own self-seeking desires.

April 20th, 2009 m_francis 2009

The difference is that the former are Hobbesians and the latter are Lockeans — which is to say that the liberals would like to live with other people and the libertarians accept the unpleasant necessity of doingso.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Hayward on the State of Conservatism: 2009

The conventional wisdom is that, since Lockeans don't dominate the American electorate, free market conservatives made a corrupt and incoherent bargain with religious moralists to trade low taxes for sexual repression in order to win elections.

Linda Hirshman: Liberal Principles 2008

Our key Founders Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton, and a few others were essentially slightly evolved Lockeans.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Conversion from Islam: 2007

Americans are Lockeans: recognizing that work is necessary no longing for a nonexistent Eden, and will produce well-being; following their natural inclinations moderately, not because they possess the virtue of moderation but because their passions are balanced and they recognize the reasonableness of that; respecting the rights of others so that theirs will be respected; obeying the law because they made it in their own interest.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Americans are Lockeans: recognizing that work is necessary no longing for a nonexistent Eden, and will produce well-being; following their natural inclinations moderately, not because they possess the virtue of moderation but because their passions are balanced and they recognize the reasonableness of that; respecting the rights of others so that theirs will be respected; obeying the law because they made it in their own interest.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Pro-chair folks sound like Lockeans to me - acquiring property by original acquisition out of the state of nature, and improving it, leaves no one any worse off, while it leaves at least one person better off.

Positive Liberty Jason Kuznicki 2010

Pro-chair folks sound like Lockeans to me - acquiring property by original acquisition out of the state of nature, and improving it, leaves no one any worse off, while it leaves at least one person better off.

Positive Liberty 2010

Pro-chair folks sound like Lockeans to me - acquiring property by original acquisition out of the state of nature, and improving it, leaves no one any worse off, while it leaves at least one person better off.

Positive Liberty Jason Kuznicki 2010

Well, God plays a role in Locke’s theory of justice, for instance, though later Lockeans have tried to make the theory work without it.

What Is This “Secular Ethics” Of Which You Speak? 2007