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‘This man is my property’: Slavery and political absolutism in Locke and the classical social contract tradition
European Journal of Political Theory 21 (2):147488512091130 (2020)
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It is morally impossible, Locke argued, for individuals to consensually establish absolute rule over themselves. That would be to transfer to rulers a power that is not ours, but God’s alone: owner...Author Profiles
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The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke.C. B. Macpherson - 1962 - Science and Society 28 (4):468-470.
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