Locke’s case for the law of nature has been called the “workmanship argument.” We are self-owners. Locke seems to be speaking to that common way of understanding ourselves when we say things like “my life,” “my body,” “my mind.” Being self-owned gives us the sarne rights and immunities, the sarne rights to life, liberty, and estate, as being God-owned does. Thus, Locke has given us two paths to the sarne destination, though it is difficult not to suspect that these two paths are in some wa...