1st Edition
Ideas of Contract in English Political Thought in the Age of John Locke
By Martyn P. Thompson
Copyright 1987
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1987. This book analyses what Englishmen understood by the term contract in political discussions during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It provides evidence for reconsidering conventional accounts of the relationships between political ideas, groups and practices of the period. But also suggests cause for examining the general history of modern... Read more
Preface Part 1 1. Introduction 2. Appeals to Contract in the Controversies over the Revolution Part 2 3. Constitutional Contract 4. William Atwood 5. Robert Ferguson Part 3 6. Philosophical Contract 7. John Locke Part 4 8. Integrated Contract 9. Algernon Sidney 10. James Tyrell Part 5 11. Conclusion
Biography
Thompson, Martyn P.
