Summary Of Chapter 5 Of The Noble Class By John Locke
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In Chapter 5 of the second book the author talks about property and critics subtly the noble class of his time. His thesis is that people have the right to appropriate goods by imposing their labor to that good, consequently making it their own. People own their body, and thus all the labor they can perform, which justifies that by adding physical labor into this object, the product becomes theirs. Following Locke’s logic, it would mean that the nobility of his time, as well as the one from previous and past times, should not own anything, especially not their land since they do not work it. Moreover, the author, describes labor as a factor of value. By working the human makes the world a more efficient place of everyone. This statement also