1st Edition
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Locke on Government
By David Lloyd Thomas
Copyright 1995
154 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
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Routledge
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John Locke is one of the most important figures in the history of political thought. His Second Treatise on Government was one of the most significant political statements of its time and provides the foundations of liberal political thought. His views on the social contract, political obligation, rebellion, revolution and property remain strikingly relevant today. Locke on Government... Read more
Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Social contract and the state; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Rebellion; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Property; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Epilogue: Locke's legacy Notes Bibliography Index;
Biography
D.A.Lloyd Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. He is the author of In Defence of Liberalism (1988).
'Lloyd Thomas provides an exemplary model of how students should go about this sort of work with a text to hand. He shows how to read a text both scrupulously and open-mindedly.' - Mind
