Political writings
John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XVI unleashed a reign of terror against Protestants in France), is a classic defense of religious freedom. Yet many of Locke's other writings-not least the Constitutions of Carolina, which he helped draft-are almost defiantly anti-liberal in outlook
Early works
1 online resource (viii, 478 pages)
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Locke's liberalism
Locke's life
Locke before Shaftesbury
Locke and Shaftesbury
Locke and Tyrrell
The First Treatise of Government
The Second Treatise of Government
Interlude: Seeds and trees
locks and ciphers
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Some more equal than others?
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
1: Letter to S.H. [Henry Stubbe] (mid-September? 1659)
2: Letter to Tom (20 October 1659) 3: From: 'Question: Whether the civil magistrate may lawfully impose and determine the use of indifferent things in reference to religious worship'
4: 'Preface to the Reader' from the First Tract on Government
5: 'Question: Can the civil magistrate specify indifferent things to be included within the order of divine worship?'
6: 'Question: Is each man's private interest the foundation of the law of nature?'
7: Letter to the Hon. Robert Boyle (12/22 December 166)
8: An Essay Concerning Toleration (1667)
9: The Fundamental Consitutions of Carolina (1669) 10: 'Philanthropy, or The Christian Philosophers' (1675)
11: 'Obligation of Penal Laws' (Journal, 25 February 1676)
12: 'Law' (Journal, 21 April 1678)
13: 'Credi, Disgrace' (Journal, 12 December 1678)
14: 'The Idea We Have of God' (Journal, 1 August 1680)
15: 'Inspiration' (Journal, 3 April 1681)
16: 'Virtus' (1681
from the 1661 Commonplace Book)
17: From The First Treatis of Government (c. 1681)
Chapter Five: Of Adam's Title to Sovereignty by the Subjection of Eve
Chapter Nine: of Monarchy by Inheritance from Adam. 18: 'Two Sorts of Knowledge' (Journal, 26 June 1681)
19: The Second Treatise of Government: An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government (c. 1681)
Chapter One
Chapter Two: Of the State of Nature
Chapter Three: Of the State of War
Chapter Four: Of Slavery
Chapter Five: Of Property
Chapter Six: Of Paternal Power
Chapter Seven: Of Political or Civil Society
Chapter Eight: Of the Beginning of Political Societies
Chapter Nine: Of the Ends of Political Society and Government
Chapter Ten: Of the Forms of a Commonwealth. Chapter Eleven: Of the Extent of the Legislative Power
Chapter Twelve: Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth
Chapter Thirteen: Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth
Chapter Fourteen: Of Prerogative
Chapter Fifteen: Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical Power Considered Together
Chapter Sixteen: Of Conquest
Chapter Seventeen: Of Usurpation
Chapter Eighteen: Of Tyranny
Chapter Nineteen: Of the Dissolution of Government
20: Letter to Edward Clarke (27 January/6 February 1685)
21: A Letter Concerning Toleration (1685)
Originally published: [New York?] : Penguin Books, ©1993