How Did John Locke In Favour Of Libertarianism

John Locke and John Rawls were both supporters of the libertarianism justice theory. Even though both Locke and Rawls supported the liberal theory of justice they were on different ends of the spectrum. John Locke was not a complete libertarian, but he did tend to agree with most of there ideas, while John Rawls was more on the side of egalitarianism. Libertarianism is different from utilitarianism because liberalism is where individual decide what are the values they want to uphold are, and what is right and wrong, just and unjust. John Locke was a supporter of the liberal theory of justice and believed that every human was entitled to life, liberty and property. In his writing Locke says, “WHETHER we consider natural reason, which tells us that men being once born have a right to their preservation, and

Locke is saying that from the moment someone is born they have the right to fight for their survival. Locke also talks about the right to property saying, “…yet every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body and the work of his hands we may say are properly his” (Locke). If a person mixes his labor into something, then it is his property because of the labor invested in it. Locke knew that people would object to this idea which he responds, “It will perhaps be objected to this, that is gathering the acorns, or other fruits of the earth, etc., makes a right to them, then any one may engross as much as he will. To which I answer, Not so. The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property too” (Locke). The fact that the labor makes something belong to them also limit show