Who Owns You? GodArchy Podcast #2

November 3, 2018
Godarchy Podcast

Who owns you?

How you answer this questions has important ramifications and should inform the way you interact with other people.

In the next two episodes, I am going to cover two foundational ideas that underlie the GodArchy worldview — self-ownership and the non-aggression principle.

In this episode, I tackle self-ownership. After establishing that we own ourselves, I delve into the political ramifications with the help of John Locke. In a nutshell, nobody has the right to rule over us without our consent.

Locke based his conception of political society on a theological premise. The founders based the American constitutional system on a Lockean conception of government by consent. But this leaves us a step short of where the reality of self-ownership should take us, as I explain at the end of the episode.

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