John Locke: El colonialismo y la esclavitud. El problema de la propiedad privada ilimitada

Raúl Reyes Camargo

doi:10.29105/aitias1.1-2

Authors

Raúl Reyes Camargo Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8820-7249

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29105/aitias1.1-2

Keywords:

slavery, colonialism, ulimited private, property, political philosophy, natural law

Abstract

In this paper it is argued that colonialism and slavery are present in John Locke’s work as elements of his reflection on political philosophy, –mainly in the Two Treatises of Government and in The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina– and are sutured with the key concept of “unlimited private property”, which is only feasible in the America of the late seventeenth century. Unlimited private property joined to the natural right of man, ties with the appropriation of American lands through colonialism, a fact fully notified to John Locke. Native Americans and the slaves brought from the coasts of Africa were not considered people, but “properties” of the Lords. Thus, even if Locke expresses in his work that in order to own a land it is only necessary to work it, the slaves, the labor core for the colonies, would never come to own any property.

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Author Biography

Raúl Reyes Camargo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Doctor en Filosofía por la UAM-I y profesor en la misma universidad. Sus áreas de investigación son la Filosofía Política, la Moral y la Ética. Coordinador de Escritos sobre filosofía política de György Lukács, donde incorpora un capítulo “Lukács y la dialéctica hegeliana”. Editó y coordinó: Martín Lutero y los orígenes oscuros de la modernidad, en el cual aporta el escrito: “La teología política de Thomas Müntzer”.

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