Word: lockean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parsing the Declaration, the author sometimes labors like an exegetical lecturer heading up a steep incline. But the exertion yields refreshing perspectives. Wills argues that Jefferson, far from being the Lockean individualist that scholars and patriotic orators have assumed, believed in sociability, ties of affection, a religion of the heart rather than of the head, a sentimental spirit-grounded in sensibilité. He was inspired not by Locke but primarily by the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, like Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid, and their intellectual cousins on the Continent...
According to the Adams Club Directory of Harvard Historians, which is put out by the graduate students in the History Department, Nelson has been writing a thesis entitled, "Beyond the Lockean Paradigm: Ideology and the Established Order in England from the Glorious Revolution to the American Rebellion...
...slight, sardonic smile, "That's an invitation to be pompous or obscure. If you say Irving Kristol and Aristotle, you're probably both." But he admits to being a conservative, with some qualification. "That's a somewhat richer and more complicated tradition than some conservatives. I'm not a Lockean. I'm more a Burkean," he says, distinguishing himself from other more libertarian conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman. Of the former, he observes, "He's a philosophic radical. He is, as Hayek is, a classic Whig or liberal. Goldwater is the most optimistic American. He believes that...
Thus, people have a right to what they acquire through voluntary, free trade no matter how much inequality may result. The only requirements is that both sides have a right to what they trade in the first place. Nozick advances a theory of original rights to goods, using many Lockean concepts of property, to get things started...
...consistent within the film, and more hopeful for Peckinpah's future that the director does not allow the traditional American "back to the garden" virtues which he celebrated in Cable Hogue to be successful. The modern world is not the Old West (which in itself was not precisely the Lockean state of nature that Peckinpah has sometimes made it out to be). There's got to be a new ideal, which Peckinpah has not yet found...