There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason." - Meaning and context.">
Book I, Ch. 3, sec. 4

There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.

— John Locke

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason." in the context of "Book I, Ch. 3, sec. 4" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Locke

About John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an influential English philosopher and social contract theorist. He developed an alternative to the Hobbesian state of nature and asserted a government could be good only if it received the consent of the governed and protected the natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. If such a consent was not achieved, Locke argued in favour of a right of rebellion, which he referred to as an "appeal to heaven".