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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... liberal constitutionalism.3 We are not special in this regard . Every gen- eration has bred its Locke controversies , often as is the case with ours - in ways that reflect and embody the great ideological contests of the day . Locke's ...
... Liberal Political Theory , " in John Brewer and Susan Staves , eds . , Early Modern Conceptions of Property ( London : Routledge , 1995 ) , pp . 43–61 . On the much debated subject of the relative influence of Lockean versus civic ...
... Liberal Theory ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 ) , pp . 80–148 . 7. See J. W. Gough , " The Development of Locke's Belief in Tolera- tion , " and Paul J. Kelly , " John Locke : Authority , Conscience , and Religious ...
... liberal allowance of the conveniencies of life to promote the great design of God , " increase and multiply : ” he that doubts this , let him look into the absolute monarchies of the world , and see what becomes of the conveniencies of ...
... liberal hand ; should any one be cruel and uncharitable to that extremity; yet all this would not prove that propriety in land, even in this case, gave any authority over the persons of men, but only that compact might; since the ...
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