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Key Text | p. 1 |
Locke's Second Treatise in Context | p. 2 |
The life and times of John Locke | p. 2 |
The political and philosophical context of the Second Treatise | p. 6 |
Overview and Key Themes | p. 13 |
The Second Treatise in Locke's philosophy | p. 13 |
Key themes | p. 19 |
Reading the Text | p. 21 |
Getting started - the problem of absolutism | p. 21 |
From the First Treatise to the Second Treatise | p. 22 |
The State of Nature | p. 26 |
Equality | p. 29 |
Freedom | p. 33 |
The Law of Nature | p. 36 |
Right and duty to punish - Executive power of the Law of Nature | p. 40 |
Natural Rights | p. 44 |
State of Nature, history and realism | p. 51 |
The State of War and slavery | p. 53 |
War | p. 54 |
Slavery | p. 56 |
Private property | p. 60 |
Self-ownership | p. 64 |
Original acquisition | p. 68 |
World ownership and equality | p. 72 |
The invention of money | p. 77 |
Property and colonial acquisition | p. 79 |
Patriarchal power and the family | p. 81 |
The status of children | p. 82 |
The duty of parents and the role of the family | p. 85 |
The obligations of children and parents | p. 87 |
The conjugal or sexual contract | p. 90 |
The origins of political society | p. 95 |
The original contract | p. 96 |
The second stage agreement and the role of majorities | p. 101 |
The problem of consent | p. 104 |
The Lockean state | p. 112 |
Legislative power | p. 115 |
Executive power | p. 117 |
Prerogative | p. 120 |
Conquest, tyranny and the dissolution of the state | p. 122 |
Conquest | p. 124 |
Usurpation | p. 127 |
Tyranny, rebellion and resistance | p. 128 |
When to rebel and resist? | p. 132 |
Reception and Influence | p. 138 |
Locke's influence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | p. 138 |
History, religion and Locke - contemporary interpretations Locke | p. 143 |
Locke, property and contemporary liberalism | p. 149 |
Notes | p. 153 |
Further Reading | p. 156 |
Bibliography | p. 158 |
Index | p. 161 |
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