Political Essays

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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors Raymond Geuss
Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge
Quentin Skinner Regius Professor ofModern History in the University of Cambridge
Locke: Political Essays
We know more about the development of John Locke's ideas than we do about almost any other philosopher's before modern times. This book brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of the writings on politics and society that stand outside the canonical works which Locke published during his lifetime. It contains five major essays and seventy shorter essays and fragments which include polemical treatises, university lectures, government memoranda, philosophical meditations, notes on reading, communications to friends and journal entries.
Locke's life was one of relentless intellectual effort, yet he published virtually nothing until he was fifty-seven years old, and he left behind an immense collection of... Tovább

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CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors Raymond Geuss
Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge
Quentin Skinner Regius Professor ofModern History in the University of Cambridge
Locke: Political Essays
We know more about the development of John Locke's ideas than we do about almost any other philosopher's before modern times. This book brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of the writings on politics and society that stand outside the canonical works which Locke published during his lifetime. It contains five major essays and seventy shorter essays and fragments which include polemical treatises, university lectures, government memoranda, philosophical meditations, notes on reading, communications to friends and journal entries.
Locke's life was one of relentless intellectual effort, yet he published virtually nothing until he was fifty-seven years old, and he left behind an immense collection of unpublished papers. In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 the three works by which he is chiefly known appeared: the Two Treatises of Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and A Letter Concerning \[ Toleration, and the themes raised in these works had been reflected upon over many years. Mark Goldie's edition makes possible the fullest exploration of the evolution of Locke's ideas concerning the philosophical foundations; of morality and sociability, the boundary of church and state, the shaping of constitutions, and the conduct of government and public policy. Vissza