Lockean
- noun
- /ˈlɒkiən/
- Formal
- The debate among Lockeans often centers on the role of government in protecting personal liberties.
- Lockean approaches to copyright
- Lockean critique
Examples
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For a variety of reasons, Americans (despite being pretty good Lockeans) decided they could not do without public schools.
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Many Lockeans believe that individual rights are fundamental to a just society.
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The Lockean standard would also better suit the interests of developing peoples.
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The original Lockean conception of necessary state action is workable under conditions of a limited state.
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Existing intellectual property systems, Gordon argues, give rights in excess of what a Lockean model would justify.
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Much has been made of the influence the Lockean idiom of self-government had on the Founders.
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The Lockean concept of private property erases the labor of the propertyless poor, as Raymond Williams argues.
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Other landmark cases applied the Lockean rationale of labor and developed the rule, "as you sow, so shall you reap."
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Lockeans repeatedly invoke Locke's natural right philosophy of property in discussions on copyright.
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As a Lockean, she values freedom of expression and the right to own property.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Lockean = Locke (transparent) = Locke + an
The noun is formed from the name 'Locke' with the productive suffix '-an' marking a person associated with or related to Locke.
Etymology
Lockean as a noun comes from the name of the English thinker John Locke and the ending -ean, which shows 'connection to' that person. So a Lockean is someone who follows Locke's ideas about individual rights, property, and limited government.