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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... society 133 VIII. Of the beginning of political societies IX. Of the ends of political society and government 141 154 X. Of the forms of a commonwealth 157 XI. Of the extent of the legislative power 158 XII. Of the legislative ...
... society supreme somewhere , can discharge any subject from any political obedience to any one of his fellow - subjects . But what law of the magistrate can give a child liberty not to " honour his father and mother ? " It is an eternal ...
... societies ; and to have bid them “ honour and obey their parents , ” in our author's sense , had been to bid them be ... society , every father must necessarily have political dominion , and there will be as many sov- ereigns as there ...
... society, as far as by common rules it can be provided for; the sword is not given the magistrate for his own good alone. § 93. Children, therefore, as has been showed, by the dependence they have on their parents for subsistence, have a ...
... society) cannot be inherited by the same title that children have to the goods of their father. The right of a son has to be maintained and provided with the necessaries and conveniencies of life out of his father's stock, gives him a ...
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