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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... preserve them, saved the nation when it was on the very brink of slavery and ruin. If these papers have that evidence I flatter myself is to be found in them, there will be no great miss of those which are lost, and my reader may be ...
... preservation ? § 53. To give life to that which has yet no being , is to frame and make a living creature , fashion the parts , and mould and suit them to their uses ; and having proportioned and fitted them together , to put into them ...
... savage inhabitants of the desert obey God and nature in being tender and careful of their offspring : they will hunt , watch , fight , and almost starve for the preservation of their young; never part with them; First Treatise 37.
... preservation ; and the preservation of their young, as the strongest principle in them, over-rules the constitution of their par- ticular natures. Thus we see, when their young stand in need of it, the timorous become valiant, the ...
... preservation , and furnished the world with things fit for food and raiment , and other necessaries of life , subservient to his design , that man should live and abide for some time upon the face of the earth , and not that so curious ...
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