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Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
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  • This highly approachable volume combines two of Western philosophy's greatest texts on just government and tolerance, issues at the forefront of modern debates on freedom and society.
  • Locke's Second Treatise of Government is one of the classics of political philosophy, and a foundational text of modern liberalism. Its theory of the just society is a timeless examinaiton of human nature.
  • A Letter Concerning Toleration has special relevance in today's multi-faith culture, and with regard to the relationship of religious institutions to the state.
  • This new edition considers the importance of Locke's texts and the contested nature of his reputation.
  • The text of the Second Treatise is that of 1714, the final edition to incorporate Locke's own amendments.

   
'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.'
   
Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the foundational text of modern liberalism. In it Locke insists on majority rule, and regards no government as legitimate unless it has the consent of the people. He sets aside people's ethnicities, religions, and cultures and envisages political societies which command our assent because they meet our elemental needs simply as humans. His work helped to entrench ideas of a social contract, human rights, and protection of property as the guiding principles for just actions and just societies.
  
Published in the same year, A Letter Concerning Toleration aimed to end Christianity's wars of religion and called for the separation of church and state so that everyone could enjoy freedom of conscience. In this edition of these two major works, Mark Goldie considers the contested nature of Locke's reputation, which is often appropriated by opposing political and religious ideologies.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of John Locke

SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT
I. Introduction
II. Of the State  of Nature
III. Of the State of War
IV. Of Slavery
V. Of Property
VI. Of Paternal Power
VII. Of Political or Civil Society
VIII. Of the Beginning of Political Societies
IX. Of the Ends of Political Society and Government
X. Of the Forms of a Commonwealth
XI. Of the Extent oft he Legislative Power
XII. Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth
XIII. Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth
XIV. Of Prerogative
XV. Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical Power Cnsider'd Together
XVI. Of Conquest
XVII. Of Usurpation
XVIII. Of Tyranny
XIX. Of the Dissolution of Government

A LETTER CONCERNING TOLEREATION

Explanatory Notes
Index

About the author: 

John Locke
Edited by Mark Goldie, University of Cambridge
   
Mark Goldie is a member of the editorial board of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke, and former editor of the Historical Journal. He has published extensively in the field of British political, religious, and intellectual history, 1650-1800. Among his edited volumes are The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, Locke's Political Essays(Cambridge) and Selected Correspondence (Oxford).

Product details

ISBN : 9780198732440

Author: 
John Locke; Mark Goldie
Pages
256 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Jun 2016
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration

Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration

Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration