Locke Destroys Filmer With Facts and Logic
Everyone who studies undergraduate political philosophy already knows what Locke has to say in his Second Treatise on Government.
But in this age of “reaction” videos, roasts, and “pwnage”, I think the polemics in Locke’s FIRST treatise are way more entertaining! It is, hands down, the longest objection screed I’ve read of the Enlightenment thinkers, apart from the responses to Descartes’ Meditations.
The opening paragraphs had me in stitches: