Second Treatise of Government: An Essay Concering the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government (Crofts Classics Series) - Hardcover

John Locke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882951246 ISBN 13: 9780882951249

Publisher: Harlan Davidson, 1982

Synopsis

Two Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.

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From the Publisher

Library of Liberal Arts title.

About the Author

Philosopher, son of a landsteward, was born at Wrington, near Bristol, and educated at Westminster School and Oxford. In 1660 Locke became lecturer on Greek, in 1662 on Rhetoric, and in 1664 he went as secretary to an Embassy to Brandenburg. While a student he turned from the subtleties of Aristotle and the schoolmen, had studied Descartes and Bacon. Then, becoming attracted to experimental science, studied medicine, and practiced a little in Oxford. His mind had been much exercised by questions of morals and government, and in 1667 he wrote his Essay on Toleration. If not a very profound or original philosopher Locke was a calm, sensible, and reasonable writer, and his books were very influential on the English thought of his day, as well as on the French philosophy of the next century. His style is plain and clear, but lacking in brightness and variety.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harlan Davidson
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882951246
• ISBN 13: 9780882951249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Richard Cox