Locke’s state of nature and its epistemic deficit: a game-theoretic analysis.

Locke rejected anarchism. Locke defended the universal necessity of political governments on the grounds that the state of nature will occasionally generate the inconveniences of war. The standard interpretation of Locke identifies three main causes of war in the state of nature: the lack of a commo...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 200; no. 2; pp. 1 - 26
Main Author: Chung, Hun
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2022
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