Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning TolerationTwo of Locke’s most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays combined in an outstanding volume "The new standard edition of Locke for students of political theory. Dunn, Grant, and Shapiro combine authoritative historical scholarship and contemporary political theory to give us Locke for our time."—Elisabeth H. Ellis, Texas A&M University Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration remain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts appear in this volume, accompanied by interpretive essays by three prominent Locke scholars. Ian Shapiro’s introduction places Locke’s political writings in historical and biographical context. John Dunn explores both the intellectual context in which Locke wrote the Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration and the major interpretive controversies surrounding their meaning. Ruth Grant offers a comprehensive discussion of Locke’s views on women and the family, and Shapiro contributes an essay on the democratic elements of Locke’s political theory. Taken together, the texts and essays in this volume offer invaluable insights into the history of ideas and the enduring influence of Locke’s political thought. |
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... subjects are taken up in the interpretive essays that follow the texts in this volume . Here I will limit myself to some general remarks about his life and political writings . As is frequently true with canonized texts — indeed this ...
... subject is explored at some length in my contribution to the present volume . 9. John Dunn , The Political Thought of John Locke ( Cambridge : Cam- bridge University Press , 1969 ) . The religious foundations of Lockean polit- ical ...
... subjects to the utmost misery of tyranny and oppression , but have also unsettled the titles and shaken the thrones of princes : ( for they too , by these men's system , except only one , are all born slaves , and by divine right are ...
... subjects , have told us expressly what that fatherly authority is , have defined it , though not limited it , because in some other treatises of his he tells us , it is unlimited , and unlimitable * ; he should at least have given us ...
... subjects of their kings , if he should have given us the whole draught to- gether , in that gigantic form he had painted it in his own fancy ; and there- fore, like a wary physician, when he would have his IO First Treatise.
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