EPZ Locke's 'Second Treatise of Government' A Reader's Guide

by Kelly, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780826492654
• ISBN10: 0826492657
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441144188
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government is one of the most influential texts in the history of political theory. It is a staple of undergraduate courses and continues to inspire and inform contemporary debates in political philosophy. In Locke's 'Sec

Table of Contents

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
The State of Nature	p. 26
Private property	p. 60
Patriarchal power and the family	p. 81
The origins of political society	p. 95
The Lockean state	p. 112
Conquest, tyranny and the dissolution of the state	p. 122
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
Bibliography	p. 158
Index	p. 161
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