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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... belongs to all princes ever since. This fatherly authority then, or right of fatherhood, in our A.'s sense, is a divine unalterable right of sovereignty, whereby a father or a prince hath an absolute, arbitrary, unlimited, and ...
... belong equally to them all ; as much to Noah's sons as to Noah himself , and not to his sons with a subordination , or in succession . " The fear of you , and the dread of you , says God , shall be upon every beast , " & c . Will any ...
... belong- ing so equally to them both , that neither can claim it wholly , neither can be excluded . § 62. One would wonder then how our author infers from the fifth commandment , that all “ power was originally in the father ; " how he ...
... belongs to the magistrate : if fathers by begetting their children acquire no such power over them ; and if the command , “ Honour thy father and mother , " give it not , but only enjoins a duty owing to parents equally , whether ...
... belongs; and a man can never be obliged in conscience to submit to any power, unless he can be satisfied who is the person who has a right to exercise that power over him. If this were not so, there would be no distinction between ...
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