John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the Essays on the Law of Nature to the Second Treatise of Government
John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the Essays on the Law of Nature to the Second Treatise of Government

Author: Franziska Quabeck

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 3643903227

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John Locke's account of natural law, which forms the very basis of his political philosophy, has troubled many critics over time. The two works that shed light on Locke's theory are the early Essays on the Law of Nature and the Second Treatise of Government, published over 20 years later. Many critics have assumed that the early work presents a voluntarist approach to natural law and the second a rationalist approach, but the present analysis in this book shows that Locke's theory is consistent. Both works present a concept of the law of nature that must be placed between voluntarism and rationalism. (Series: Polyptoton. Munster Collection, Academic Writings / Polyptoton. Munsteraner Sammlung Akademischer Schriften - Vol. 3)

The Political Thought of John Locke
The Political Thought of John Locke

Author: John Dunn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1982-09-09

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1316583155

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This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought. John Dunn restores Locke's ideas to their exact context, and so stresses the historical question of what Locke in the Two Treatises of Government was intending to claim. By adopting this approach, he reveals the predominantly theological character of all Locke's thinking about politics and provides a convincing analysis of the development of Locke's thought. In a polemical concluding section, John Dunn argues that liberal and Marxist interpretations of Locke's politics have failed to grasp his meaning. Locke emerges as not merely a contributor to the development of English constitutional thought, or as a reflector of socio-economic change in seventeenth-century England, but as essentially a Calvinist natural theologian.

Crown under Law
Crown under Law

Author: Alexander S. Rosenthal

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2008-05-06

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1461633281

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Crown under Law is an account of how and why the constitutional idea arose in early modern England. The book focuses on two figures_Richard Hooker and John Locke. Rosenthal represents Hooker as a transitional figure who follows in the medieval natural law tradition even while laying the groundwork for Locke's political thought. The book challenges the influential interpretation of Locke by Leo Strauss (who saw Locke as a radical modernist) by illustrating the lines of continuity between Locke's argument in the Two Treatises of Government and the earlier political tradition represented by Hooker. By illustrating the often distinctive manner in which Hooker addressed the great questions, and how he powerfully affected later developments such as Locke's conception of the state, Rosenthal's Crown under Law establishes the important place of Richard Hooker in the history of political thought.

John Locke
John Locke

Author: John Locke

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780199254217

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Written before his better-known philosophical works, these essays fully explain how natural law is known and to what extent it is binding.

Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law
Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law

Author: Hunter Ian Hunter

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-01-22

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1474449255

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Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances.

On the History of the Idea of Law
On the History of the Idea of Law

Author: Shirley Robin Letwin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-10

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1139448498

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On the History of the Idea of Law is the first book ever to trace the development of the philosophical theory of law from its first appearance in Plato's writings to today. Professor Letwin finds important and positive insights and tensions in the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Hobbes. She finds confusions and serious errors introduced by Cicero, Aquinas, Bentham, and Marx. She harnesses the insights of H. L. A. Hart and especially Michael Oakeshott to mount a devastating attack on the late twentieth-century theories of Ronald Dworkin, the Critical Legal Studies movement, and feminist jurisprudence. In all of this, Professor Letwin finds the rule of law to be the key to modern liberty and the standard of justice. This is the final work of the distinguished historian and theorist Shirley Robin Letwin, a major figure in the revival of Conservative thought and doctrine from 1960 onwards, who died in 1993.

Contractarianism Versus Holism
Contractarianism Versus Holism

Author: Zbigniew Rau

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780819199300

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Remaining fully within the classical liberal tradition, recasts Locke's (1632-1704) political thought in terms of his conflict with the doctrine of his contemporary, Robert Filmer (d. 1653). Focuses on Locke's steps in moving the argument forward, relegating other aspects of his treatment to footnotes. Designed to be accessible to graduate and upper-level undergraduates of political theory by assuming no previous knowledge of Locke's ideas, and avoiding a conventional analysis of the historical context. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR