Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition

by John Locke , Edited by Peter Laslett

• ISBN13: 9780521354486
• ISBN10: 052135448X
• Edition: Student
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-10-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as a classic text in the history of ideas.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Part I. Introduction: 1. The book

2. Locke the man and Locke the writer

3. Two Treatises of Government and the Revolution of 1688

4. Locke and Hobbes

5. The social and political theory of Two Treatises of Government

6. Addendum: the dating of the composition of Two Treatises

Editorial note

Part II. The Text: 7. Preface

8. First treatise

9. Second treatise

Suggested reading

Bibliography

Index.