Locke: Political Writings
Locke: Political Writings

Author: John Locke

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2003-03-15

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1603846867

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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. This comprehensive collection brings together the main published works (excluding polemical attacks on other people's views) with the most important surviving evidence from among Locke’s papers relating to his political philosophy. David Wootton's wide-ranging and scholarly Introduction sets the writings in the context of their time, examines Locke's developing ideas and unorthodox Christianity, and analyzes his main arguments. The result is the first fully rounded picture of Locke’s political thought in his own words.

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

Author: John Dunn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780521271394

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In this analysis Locke emerges as not merely a contributor to English constitutional thought or a reflector of the socio-economic change in seventeenth-century England, but as an essentially Calvinist natural theologian.

John Locke: Problems and Perspectives
John Locke: Problems and Perspectives

Author: John W. Yolton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0521073499

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The essays reflect Locke's position as a polymath and recontextualise his ideas through the juxtaposition of various academic approaches.

Locke: Political Essays
Locke: Political Essays

Author: John Locke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780521478618

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We know more about the development of John Locke's ideas than we do about almost any other philosopher's before modern times. This book brings together a comprehensive collection of the writings on politics and society that stand outside the canonical works which Locke published during his lifetime. In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 the three works by which he is chiefly known appeared: the Two Treatises of Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and A Letter Concerning Toleration, and the themes raised in these works had been reflected upon over many years. Mark Goldie's edition makes possible the fullest exploration of the evolution of Locke's ideas concerning the philosophical foundations of morality and sociability, the boundary of church and state, the shaping of constitutions, and the conduct of government and public policy.