John Locke's Theory

First and foremost, it is important to discuss Locke’s central theme of life, liberty, and the pursuit of property and how it influenced the Declaration of Independence. The document starts out discussing the state of nature and the natural law. In the hypothetical state of nature, all humans are created equal, are rational beings, and have the freedom to act however they want without the interference of others. The Declaration of Independence starts out by mentioning this natural state. The state of war is enacted with the introduction of private property. Originally, everything found on the earth belongs to everyone. The natural law was anyone had the freedom to use the earth in any way they may need. However, the natural law also states that every being has a right to their body, and its actions. Their actions would be described as the labor they put into the land owned by everyone, as a result the land produced and made better

John Locke was perhaps one of the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Second Treatise of Government, John Locke discusses the move from a state of nature and perfect freedom to a then governed society in which authority is given to a legislative and executive power. His major ideas included liberalism and capitalism, state of nature, state of war and the desire to protect one’s property.

There were a number of influential factors that played a role in the development of U.S constituent’s fears and thoughts about the Holocaust during the time periods. These thoughts and fears at the time dictated over U.S legislator and there ability to pass and make laws aiding Jewish refugees. One of the influential roles included the media because, during the Holocaust the press tried their best efforts to hide and mask the full persecution that Jews and non Aryans were facing (IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE ERA OF THE HOLOCAUST, 1). This served to be immoral in the eyes of the future public, because ignorance is not bliss it’s an illusion people portray to mask reality. With this ignorance in mind the constituents pushed their advocates to not pass laws, because they perceived this genocide as a minor inconvenience (IMMIGRATION). Ignorance leads to pain, and people being set in their ways such as laws.

How do the authors characterize the American response to the Holocaust, and what explanation(s) do they give for that conduct?

There were nearly 100,000 Displaced Jews after the Holocaust. More than 75% of them never found any more family members. At the end of World War II there were millions of people in Europe- as much as a tenth of the population of the continent- who had been driven out of their house by the Nazi's. (Dibelius) “On May 14, 1948, the United States and the Soviet Union recognized the state of Israel. Congress also passed the Displaced Persons Act in 1948, authorizing 200,000 DPs to enter the United States.” The law's rules and demands made it adverse at first to the Jewish DPs, but Congress edited the bill with the Displaced Persons Act of 1950 (Displaced Persons). “By 1952, over 80,000 Jewish DPs had immigrated to the United States under the terms of the DP Act and with the aid of Jewish agencies.” Even with all the laws that were passed allowing populations to immigrate, it still wasn’t enough. Nearly none of Europe tolerated these people, because of what they were led to believe. The United States was probably the most tolerant, because they the least influenced by Hitler's

Locke’s describes private property as a person’s labor mixed with nature's resources. Seen as an example in a farmer cultivating a plot of land for his own sustenance and the qualification of that farmland as private property through his labor. Given that nature is given to us by God for humans as an equal source of resources, it is then enforced to to distill only one’s need from nature as it is limited to personal equality across religious mandate. This is an important guideline that quantifies measurements to

One topic that is discussed in both documents is how people are entitled to specific rights that cannot be taken from them. Locke explains that the legislative acts cannot invade “...the lives, liberties, or fortunes of the people” (Locke ❡ 2).

John Locke was an exemplary English philosopher. He argued in his book, The Second Treatise of Government, that governments need to be controlled through the interests of the citizens safety and preservation. Preservation is not just limited to life, but also the protection of liberty and property. Natural rights and the social contract allows this to be ensured. In fact, he states that, “ “.

This is important because these actions destroyed holocaust survivors

Having established his state of nature, Locke begins his description of the formation and transition to society, and appropriately starts with a discussion of property. “God, who hath given the World to Men in common, hath also given them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of Life, and convenience.” (Locke, Second Treatise, V.26). Here, Locke does little more than apply natural law (self preservation) to what he sees around him (land), but in doing so, makes a groundbreaking shift. He reveals that, following from natural law, men have a right to use what they have around them to further their own preservation and lives. In addition, man has an inherent, and obvious, possession of himself and all that comes with it, including, and most importantly, labor. “The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his.” (Locke, Second Treatise,

Despite a lack of experience in diplomacy he led one of the most successful rescue efforts during the holocaust. By July 1944 the germans had deported an estimated 440,000 jews, mostly to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where approximately 320,000 of them died upon arriving and the rest to labor camps. There were nearly 200,000 remaining in Budapest. The Hungarian police had intentions to deport them as well. To stop the deportation of the rest of the jews Wallenberg with the permission of the Swedish government began issuing certificates of protection to the Jews of Budapest. In addition to distributing certificates of protection he established “safe” houses that together they called the international ghetto. The ghetto was reserved for Jews and their families who held certificates of protection. The Hungarian authorities forced thousands of Jews to the Hungarian border. Later that year in 1944, Wallenberg intervened to secure the release of those with certificates of protection and forged papers. When the soviets liberated Budapest in 1945 more than 100,000 Jews remained, mostly because of Wallenberg's efforts.

After Kristallnacht, the Nazi’s imposed a fine of $400,000,000 on the Jews in Germany. To make it worse, the Jews were ordered to clean up and make repairs, and all insurance money paid to Jews due to property damage was confiscated by the German government. This order was devastating, because over 1,000 synagogues and 7,000 Jewish businesses in Germany were destroyed, which made it impossible for the Jews to make repairs.

In 1951, the Israeli government made a claim to the four major powers occupying post-war Germany regarding compensation and reimbursement, based on facts of Israel absorbing and resettling 500,000 holocaust survivors. The calculation was that each person since absorption had cost 3,000 dollars ($27,000 current dollars), thus they were owed 1.5 billion dollars ($13,800,000,000 in current dollars) by Germany. They also had figured that six billion dollars’ worth of Jewish property had been stolen by Nazi’s, however stressing that that could never be made up for with any type of material

Political philosopher John Locke ideas and theories serve as a foundation in our democratic world. In the Second Treatise of Government sovereignty is placed in the hands of the people. Locke argues that everyone is born equal and has natural rights in the state of nature. He also argues that men have inalienable rights to life, liberty and property. The central argument around the creation of a civil society was with the protection of property. In this essay I will explain Locke's theory of property and how it is not anything other than a "thinly disguised defense of bourgeois commercial capitalism." This statement is defended through Locke's personal background and his justifications for the inequalities of wealth.

A agreement not to defend myself from lard, by force, is always void. Although animadvert do not agree on whether these laws should be esteem as mere precepts of prudence, or rather as divine overlook, or moral imperatives of some other chance, all assent that Hobbes comprehend them to direct people to submit to political authority.