Natural freedom and childhood subjection rest on the same principle of attained reason.
Evidence
Thus we are born free, as we are born rational; not that we have actually the exercise of either: age, that brings one, brings with it the other too. And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle. A child is free by his father’s title, by his father’s understanding, which is to govern him till he hath it of his own. — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 74
Categorization
- XREF: Resolves an apparent contradiction in Locke that bears on how consent and capacity are treated as paired throughout the course readings. — connects to: Children are born to equality but not in it, gaining freedom only with reason. — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 66