Abstract
Philosophers are the mirror of the society where they use their glass to critically view and analyses certain human problems in order to propose a certain solution to that problem. The political philosophy of John Locke on the sustenance of peace and the conduct of good governance have given direction to any true democratic leaders who are in power to serve humanity and making lives better for his peoples. This paper was of the opinion that leaders in Nigeria since the return to democracy in 1999 in to the country the system has fail to meets the desired dividend for peaceful society and provision of functional government; this led to emerging problems of insecurity and pockets of conflicts in different parts of the country. This paper has uses secondary data source through reviewing relevant secondary information on the subject matter. This paper was of views that if leaders in Nigeria would be serious on the process of operating good governance they should provide an enabling environment that would promote peace and security among the citizens by ensuring welfare and the need of the peoples are the priority agenda that can drive the nation out of these menace of insecurity and conflicts through respecting rule of law, fighting corruption, separation of power and tolerance. Keywords: Peace, Good Governance. Philosophy and Human needs. DOI: 10.7176/PPAR/10-5-06 Publication date: May 31 st 2020
Highlights
John Locke was in many ways unlike his predecessors, he was a multifaceted individual at one time a doctor, economist, university teacher and other times a politician and public administrator
Scholarship needs to move beyond those criticisms to attempting to apply the Social Contract Theory to specific cases of democratic practicing nations in other to see how the imperfect democratic situations can be explained and understood from a theoretical and philosophical perspective. It will address the lacuna in the literature on John Locke’s Social Contract Theory and the practice of democracy, which otherwise gives the impression that John Locke’s Social Contract Theory is not useful. It is for this reason, that this study considers Nigeria democratic practice as a case study for the application of John Locke’s Social Contract Theory in order to understand the nature and character of the practicing of democracy in Nigeria
The purpose of this study is to adopt a new approach to understanding the real factors responsible for the crisis being experienced in Nigeria’s democracy
Summary
John Locke was in many ways unlike his predecessors, he was a multifaceted individual at one time a doctor, economist, university teacher and other times a politician and public administrator. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch. He argued that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property that have a foundation of independent of the laws of any particular society. In the Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke denied that coercion should be used to bring people to (what the ruler believes is) the true religion and denied that churches should have any coercive power over their members. Locke elaborated on these themes in his later political writings, such as the Second Letter on Toleration and Third
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