| Reading/Discussion Prompts October 6
- What did you find to be "radical" in this reading?
- Why is labour the key to ownership of property?
- How does labour increase value?
("it is labour indeed that puts
the difference of value on every thing" (25))
- Am I my own property?
- What belongs/does not belong to Locke's property list?
- What compact is operating in your dorm?
- What are the rules of community membership on the Internet?
- What are we to make of: "The great and chief end ,
therefore, of men's uniting into common-wealths, and putting
themselves under government, is the preservation of their property."
(66)
October 9
- Where is the body politic in Paradise Lost?
- Does money have value?
- Where does power reside?
- What is the relationship between power and the boundary
between natural and human law?
- What are we to make of: "prerogative is nothing but the
power of doing public good without a rule" (87)
- What would Locke say about:
capital punishment, abortion, American slavery, prisons,
prostitution, selling illegal/legal drugs, facebook membership,
intellectual property, & internet viruses?
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