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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... give to the sons of Noah the world in common with their 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 ...
... give not property , nay , property in possession , it will be hard to find words that can ; since there is not a way to express a man's being possessed of any thing more natural , nor more certain , than to say , it is delivered into ...
... give them something that Adam with all his sovereignty wanted , something that one would be apt to take for a greater property ; for certainly he has no absolute dominion over even the brutal part of the creatures , and the property he ...
... gives a man power over the life of another ? or how will the possession even of the whole earth give any one a sovereign arbitrary authority over the persons of men ? The most specious thing to be said is , that he that is proprietor of ...
... gives every man a title to the product of his honest industry, and the fair acquisitions of his ancestors descended ... give him no sovereignty: but we have already sufficiently proved that God gave him no '' private dominion.'' CHAPTER.
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