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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... tells us in the words of Mr. Selden , that “ Adam by donation from God , Gen. i . 28 , was made the general lord of all things , not without such a private dominion to himself , as without his grant did exclude his children . This ...
... tells us , and Adam was now made monarch , whatever sir Robert would have him , it is plain , God made him but a very poor monarch , such an one as our author himself would have counted it no great privilege to be . God set him to work ...
... tells us here it is by begetting them : and so again , O. 223 , " This natural dominion of Adam , " says he , " may be proved out of Grotius himself , who teacheth that ' generatione jus acquiritur paren- tibus in liberos . ' " And ...
... tell me their uses and operations , and when the living and rational soul began to inhabit this curious structure , when sense began , and how this engine , which he has framed , thinks and reasons : if he made it , let him , when it is ...
... tell us his own fancies for certain and divine truths , though there be often a great deal of difference between his and divine revelations ; for God in the Scripture says , " his father and his mother that begot him . ” § 56. They who ...
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