Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher who was a key figure in the Enlightenment and the “Father of Liberalism.” In his book Two Treaties of Government, he compared indigenous and European ways of life and concluded that indigenous people did not have a right to their land because they supposedly did not cultivate it properly.
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Chapter 4: Bounding the Land
In Two Treatises of Government, John Locke compares indigenous people’s way of life to that of Europeans. He points out that Native...
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Locke argued that Native people had not properly cultivated the land because they were not motivated...
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