Two Treatises of Government
by Locke, John (1960)
Key Passage
God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him. God and his reason commanded him to subdue the earth, i.e. improve it for the benefit of life, and therein lay out something upon it that was his own, his labour. He that in obedience to this command of God, subdued, tilled and sowed any part of it, thereby annexed to it something that was his property, which another had no title to, nor could without injury take from him.
(p.291)
Keywords
Locke, History, History Of Ideas, History Of Political Thought, Seventeenth Century, Labour Theory Of Value, Property, Ownership, Religion, God, Obedience, DutyThemes
Locke CitationsCitation
Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Peter Laslett, Cambridge University Press, 1960. Page cited: p.291.
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