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Ideas for 'Politics', 'Phaedo' and 'Second Treatise of Government'

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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
19870 If you try to enslave me, you have declared war on me [Locke]
19913 A master forfeits ownership of slaves he abandons [Locke]
21358 Natural slaves are those naturally belonging to another, or who can manage no more than labouring [Aristotle]
19883 Slaves captured in a just war have no right to property, so are not part of civil society [Locke]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom
20092 One principle of liberty is to take turns ruling and being ruled [Aristotle]
19871 Freedom is not absence of laws, but living under laws arrived at by consent [Locke]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
2833 Equality is obviously there to help people who do not get priority in the constitution [Aristotle]
2834 It is always the weak who want justice and equality, not the strong [Aristotle]
2830 We can claim an equal right to aristocratic virtue, as well as to wealth or freedom [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality
22569 The Heraeans replaced election with lot, to thwart campaigning [Aristotle]
22550 It is dreadful to neither give a share nor receive a share [Aristotle]
22568 Faction is for inferiors to be equal, and equals to become superior [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
2814 Phaleas proposed equality of property, provided there is equality of education [Aristotle]
19880 All value depends on the labour involved [Locke]
22540 Wealth could be quickly leveled by only the rich giving marriage dowries [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
2828 Law is intelligence without appetite [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 3. Alienating rights
19884 There is only a civil society if the members give up all of their natural executive rights [Locke]
19873 We all own our bodies, and the work we do is our own [Locke]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
6580 Locke (and Marx) held that ownership of objects is a natural relation, based on the labour put into it [Locke, by Fogelin]
20520 Locke says 'mixing of labour' entitles you to land, as well as nuts and berries [Wolff,J on Locke]
19875 A man's labour gives ownership rights - as long as there are fair shares for all [Locke]
19874 If a man mixes his labour with something in Nature, he thereby comes to own it [Locke]
19877 Fountain water is everyone's, but a drawn pitcher of water has an owner [Locke]
19876 Gathering natural fruits gives ownership; the consent of other people is irrelevant [Locke]
19878 Mixing labour with a thing bestows ownership - as long as the thing is not wasted [Locke]
19879 A man owns land if he cultivates it, to the limits of what he needs [Locke]
22537 Property should be owned privately, but used communally [Aristotle]
19898 Soldiers can be commanded to die, but not to hand over their money [Locke]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
2825 The good is obviously justice, which benefits the whole community, and involves equality in some sense [Aristotle]
22573 The virtue of justice may be relative to a particular constitution [Aristotle]
22527 Justice is the order in a political community [Aristotle]
22547 Justice is equality for equals, and inequality for unequals [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / a. Legal system
2806 Man is the worst of all animals when divorced from law and justice [Aristotle]
22556 Laws that match people's habits are more effective than mere written rules [Aristotle]
2816 If it is easy to change the laws, that makes them weaker [Aristotle]
19881 The aim of law is not restraint, but to make freedom possible [Locke]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / b. Rule of law
22554 It is said that we should not stick strictly to written law, as it is too vague [Aristotle]
2827 It is preferable that law should rule rather than any single citizen [Aristotle]
22551 Correct law should be in control, with rulers only deciding uncertain issues [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law
19868 It is only by a law of Nature that we can justify punishing foreigners [Locke]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
19867 Reparation and restraint are the only justifications for punishment [Locke]
19912 Self-defence is natural, but not the punishment of superiors by inferiors [Locke]
19869 Punishment should make crime a bad bargain, leading to repentance and deterrence [Locke]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
2840 The whole state should pay for the worship of the gods [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 4. Taxation
19899 The consent of the people is essential for any tax [Locke]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
2811 A state is plural, and needs education to make it a community [Aristotle]
22588 A city has a single end, so education must focus on that, and be communal, not private [Aristotle]
2847 The aim of serious childhood play is the amusement of the complete adult [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
2842 Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening [Aristotle]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
2844 Abortions should be procured before the embryo has acquired life and sensation [Aristotle]