Abstract
EADERS of the Two Treatises of Government have long wondered about the meaning of Locke's discussion of the state of nature. Did Locke think that the state of nature really existed, or did he present it as an invented or imagined state? The question has been put in this form: Is Locke's state of nature moral fiction, historical fact, a combination of both, or something else?1 I shall argue that, for Locke,
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