locke thoughts 3

"Philosophies of leadership are determined by beliefs about human nature.

A leader will change his leadership type with his different views of the people. For example, say you start out at a new school and everyone is new to each other. Everyone treats each other as equals, but as the year goes on they learn more about each other and treat others differently than others because of their views on the others. I think this is true, and just because Locke has a good philosophy on everyone getting god given rights doesn’t mean it has anything to do with everyone being entitled to a certain judgment of other people. Basically he never says anything on thinking differently of other people, so no matter what line of power they are in or how low they are on the a scale of power you can think of them in whichever way you’d like.

"The governed have a responsibility for their governance."

The people under government need to take responsibility for their government. So basically if your teacher tries to get your class in trouble for something they didn’t do, they pretty much take responsibility for what their teachers said they did. In my opinion I think this is fair, because the teacher is the leader and as long as the teacher still lets them have their rights, they should be able to handle there punishment.

"Human Nature does not determine our actions,: it inclines us towards us towards certain actions."

People aren’t bad just because the people around them are bad, but the people around them will influence their decisions. So you’re in school and you get bugged for doing something they don’t like you doing but you should be doing, for example something like homework. You will still do it, but their input on it will get you to think of the different pros and cons of doing it. This is definitely a possible situation one would get into. My thinker Locke would definitely agree with this scenario because he only wants to make sure one has there rights, and he knows that there will be people that will try to mess with you or deny you these rights, but he expects you to go about the situation in a manor that doesn’t deny anyone of their rights or harm another.