Locke on the Law of Nature
2009 Volume 32 Pages 27-39
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2009 Volume 32 Pages 27-39
Some commentators say that Locke late in his life finds it impossible to discover the law of nature through the reason and turns instead to the revelation which is in the opposite of the reason. In this paper I try to refute such view. Locke holds that there are three laws to judge people’s actions. They are the Divine Law,the Civil Law and the law of Opinion or Reputation (hereafter LOR). Locke thinks that LOR coincides with the Divine Law which means the law of nature. So we can deduce the content of the law of nature from LOR through the reason. Therefore,Locke does not abandon the idea of law of nature discovered through the reason.
