John Locke and the Inequality Between the Sexes

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Focusing mainly on Locke's chain of arguments in his Second Treatise, this paper aims at breaking down the key points of his social contract theory to eventually point out the contradiction that obscures his ideas of equality and liberty. For this purpose, f...