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Comment: ‘Reason teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty and possessions’ (Locke)

  • UPSC 1992
  • Equality and Liberty

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This is John Locke's definition of the law of nature in §6 of the Second Treatise of Government (1689, dated 1690), which opens "reason, which is that law". Before any government exists, reason itself is the moral law, and it forbids harm. From it Locke derives natural equality, natural rights and limited government.

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