He noted that the state of nature is more or less free and equal, in contrast to the pessimist (*) Hobbes.
This philosopher wrote that "in the beginning, all the world was America," since people could just enclose land to own it. He argued that the use of money that doesn't naturally depreciate destroyed natural limits on accumulating wealth. This philosopher called labor added to natural resources the basis for property. He noted that the state of nature is more or less free and equal, in contrast to the pessimist (*) Hobbes. He argued that, when governments act against the interests of their citizens, revolution is justified, because the social contract has been broken. For 10 points, name this English philosopher who, in his Two Treatises of Government, wrote that people have the rights to life, liberty, and property.
This philosopher wrote that "in the beginning, all the world was America," since people could just enclose land to own it.
John Locke