Reflection #1 John Winthrop: The Little Speech (1639)

John Winthrop in "The Little Speech" talked about the kinds of liberty. According to him there are two types of liberty "Natural liberty and Civil or federal liberty." According to him " Natural liberty is what man shares in common with beasts. Man, as he stands in relation to man, has the liberty to do good or evil."  As man grow, they become more evil. Many times, we do not know how to control ourselves. We are able to take revenge with our hands when we think something is wrong. In the other hand, civil or federal liberty is the relation between God and Man, moral law and politic views. " This liberty is the proper end and object of authority." We live in a world where we need in somehow authority. There is too much of corruption in nowadays and people just want to do what is good for them. Many times, we think we are the only people living in this world and we want to govern as it suits us. That is why we need governments because otherwise we will all be lost. We will not know what to do and to lead. How would our lives be without government? Our countries will be a chaos. In some way, we need authorities to lead us into what we need to do.