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The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'

By John Dunn

Book information

Year
1969
ISBN
9780521074087, 9780521271394, 0521074088, 0521271398
LCC
JC153.L87
Open Library ID
OL22821997M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12170656 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
306\154
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought. John Dunn restores Locke's ideas to their exact context, and so stresses the historical question of what Locke in the Two Treatises of Government was intending to claim. By adopting this approach, he reveals the predominantly theological character of all Locke's thinking about politics and provides a convincing analysis of the development of Locke's thought. In a polemical concluding section, John Dunn argues that liberal and Marxist interpretations of Locke's politics have failed to grasp his meaning. Locke emerges as not merely a contributor to the development of English constitutional thought, or as a reflector of socio-economic change in seventeenth-century England, but as essentially a Calvinist natural theologian.

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