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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... could light on it . But the sense is yet harder , and more remote from our author's purpose : for as it stands in his preface it is to prove Adam's being monarch , and his reasoning is thus , “ God gave the First Treatise 23.
... if your father please , or they shall be delivered into your hands hereafter ? If this be to argue from Scripture , I know not what may not be proved by it ; and I can scarce see how much this differs from that fiction and First Treatise ...
... prove, that ''it may best be understood with a subordination, or a benediction in succession; for, says he, it is ... proved) that Adam had any such private dominion : and since parallel places of Scripture are most probable to make us ...
... proving Adam sole proprietor , that , on the contrary , it is a confirmation of the original community of all things ... prove , that there never was any such property , that God never gave any such private dominion ; since it is more ...
... prove that propriety in land, even in this case, gave any authority over the persons of men, but only that compact ... proved that God gave him no '' private dominion.'' CHAPTER. V. Of. Adam's. Title. to. Sovereignty,. by. the. Subjection. of.
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