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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... father , when by being a father only he had that right , is , methinks , hard to conceive , unless he would have him to be a father before he was a father , and have a title before he had it . § 18. To this foreseen objection , our A ...
... father of all flesh , Adam being commanded to multiply and people the earth , and to subdue it , and having dominion given him over all creatures , was thereby the monarch of the whole world . None of his posterity had any right to ...
... father , Adam alone is signified ; but whatever our author does , the Scripture speaks not nonsense . § 32. To maintain this property and private dominion of Adam , our author labours in the following page to destroy the community ...
... father , because it was possible they might enjoy it under or after him . A very good sort of argu- ment against an express text of Scripture : but God must not be believed , though he speaks it himself , when he says he does any thing ...
... father's land ; but where God ever appointed any such heir of the world, our author would have done well to have showed us; and how God disinherited him of his birth right, or what harm was done him if God gave his sons a right to make ...
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