Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition

by John Locke , Edited by Peter Laslett

• ISBN13: 9780521357302
• ISBN10: 0521357306
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-10-28
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This is the revised version of Peter Laslett’s acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. This new edition revises Dr Laslett’s second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys recent advances in Locke scholarship. In the introduction, Dr Laslett shows that the Two Treatises were not a rationalisation of the events of 1688 but rather a call for a revolution yet to come.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
INTRODUCTION	3	(134)
I The Book	3	(13)
II Locke the man and Locke the writer	16	(29)
III Two Treatises of Government and the Revolution of 1688	45	(22)
IV Locke and Hobbes	67	(26)
V The social and political theory of Two Treatises of Government	93	(30)
Addendum: the dating of the composition of Two Treatises	123	(4)
Editorial note	127	(10)
THE TEXT	137	(292)
Preface	137	(4)
First Treatise	141	(124)
Second Treatise	265	(164)
Suggested reading	429	(4)
Bibliography	433	(18)
Index	451