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| On John Lockes Thought of Political Freedom and Its Philosophical “Foundation” |
| Wang Tangfeng |
| School of Marxism, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China |
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Abstract When elaborating and deducting political freedom, John Locke never forgot to place his analysis on his philosophy. To him, the eternal existence of a cogitative Being makes political freedom inviolable; the existence of freedom as one power or ability and its limit constitute the logic of the existence, extension and restriction of political freedom; the revelation plays a role of the last theoretical weapon to defend political freedom. Nevertheless, his political standing makes the real political freedom he pursues not as universal, sufficient and thorough as he claims. Also, it is this same factor that makes him keep carefully an ambiguous attitude to humans effort for rationality, and fail to achieve complete logic selfconsistence when deducting philosophically his thoughts of political freedom.
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2017, Vol. 19 
