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Record W2070861797 · doi:10.1017/s0008423909090313

A Note on Locke's “The Great Art of Government”

2009· article· en· W2070861797 on OpenAlexaff
Edward Andrew

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesInterpretation (philosophy)Context (archaeology)PhilosophyAssertionAmbiguityPopulationSociologyHistory

Abstract

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Abstract. This note explores the ambiguity in John Locke's assertion that “the great art of government” consists in the increase and right employment of “lands” or “hands.” The dominant interpretation is that Locke thought governmental practice should aim at the extension and proper cultivation of land, while others assert that, given the context of the labour theory of value and Locke's concern to increase population, a more suitable interpretation is that the great art of government consists in the maximal exploitation of “hands” or labourers. The case for both “lands” and “hands” is examined within the scholarly literature on Locke's egalitarianism and political economy, an argument for the minority favouring of “hands” over “lands” provided and its contemporary relevance explained. Résumé. Cette note analyse l'ambiguïté de l'assertion de John Locke selon laquelle «le grand art du gouvernement» consiste dans l'accroissement et l'exploitation convenable des terres («lands») ou de la main-d'oeuvre («hands»). L'interprétation dominante est que Locke pensait que la sage administration avait pour but la meilleure culture des terres («lands»), mais quelques savants lockiens, invoquant la théorie de Locke que toute valeur est le produit du travail et son intérêt pour la croissance de la population, privilégient plutôt une interprétation centrée sur l'exploitation de la main-d'oeuvre («hands»). L'auteur explore les deux optiques dans la littérature érudite sur l'égalité et l'économie politique de Locke, puis présente un raisonnement sur l'interprétation minoritaire centrée sur la main-d'oeuvre et en explique la pertinence dans le monde contemporain.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.840
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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