... but he adds to his philosophy a theory of morals which could be really confusing. He opined in his Essay on Human Understanding, (in three chapters) that there are no universally binding moral laws. He explained in terms of history by stating that the morality of one society is the immorality ... the argument put forward by Hobbes's State of Nature, Locke described it as pre-eminently social in character. It was one of 'goodwill, peace and preservation and mutual assistance'. The Law of Nature proposed by Locke was nowhere a civil state. There was no common superior to enforce the ...

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