John Locke - Father of Liberalism

[gzg]

Very informative I feel enlightened by this exquisite presentation, 10/10 would recommend.

[SamSepiolTheHeretic]

Very informative video I really appreciate the quality of work put into this

[freenar]

Great video, taught me lots, thank you!

[PatrickSteil]

Good video. This sounded like maybe it was a group high school project perhaps.

Not sure if the authors are Christian or not but just wanted to point out a couple things.

This worldview and political philosophy is taught in US and sounds like Canadian schools as the de facto philosophy by which we operate.

But just realize that this worldview leaves God and his morals completely out of the discussion it does not want any religious viewpoint in the discussion, but only wants personal opinion, opinions and morals that do not come from any objective truth of God.

It was the protestant reformation that was the beginning of this type of thinking where we don’t need any authority to tell us what our morals are. But if God is the creator of the universe, and thus the author of all truth, then as Christians, we should want to have a religious authority over us to tell us when we are wrong about, our morals or beliefs or opinions.

There was admittedly corruption in the church at the time of the reformation, but that does not mean that the work that the church had been doing for 1500 years to help us know the truth of God was ready to be completely thrown out the window.

As we can see today in Canada and the United States people, no longer respect truth at all. Men can be women, women can be men, and there is no purpose for either one. Men, women and families have a significant roles in the building of a cohesive society. And either those roles are defined by God and the natural law that he has instantiated or we run the risk of complete chaos, where no one knows or believes in any type of moral framework and anything goes.

This will actually cause a huge loss of freedom. Instead of what these ideals are supposed to guarantee, which is freedom. In order to have freedom, you must have a substantial set of rules and morals and virtues in a society.

May God bless us, all on our journey to find his truth.

[jodyhonea]

Most thinks that he had little impact on politics in his day. He also believed God gave us these laws and didn't believe atheists should be tolerated because he believed that not believing in God would cause social chaos. He is a great philosophier but he is more of a libertarian which is far right not liberal leaning but he does have some left leaning ideas such as the law of spoil. Have a good day

[dreamsofdspace]

I don't think you understand his philosophy very well, pet, the idea of women's rights and racial interest groups are antithetical to classical liberalism; these are collectivist ideas.