1st Edition

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 2 From the 1690s to the 1830s

By Mark Goldie Copyright 2000
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats. These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political ideas.

    Volume 2 Patriarchalism, the Social Contract and Civic Virtue, 1705-1760, The Rehearsal, Nos 36-8, 49, 53, 55-6, 58-61, 66, (March-October 1705) An Essay upon Government, wherein the Republican Schemes Reviv’d by Mr. Lock, Dr. Blackal, &c. are Fairly Consider’d and Refuted (1705) Preface from Reflections upon Marriage (1706) A Letter to Michael Ainsworth (1709) from Several Letters written by a Noble Lord to a Young Man at the University (1716) Chapter II from The Original and Institution of Civil Government, Discuss’d (1710) An Argument for Self-Defence (1710) Passive Obedience (1712)Cato’s Letters, Nos 55, 59, 60 and 62 (2 and 30 December 1721 and 6 and 20 January 1722) Extracts from Notes to Samuel Pufendorf’s Of the Law of Nature and Nations (1729) Fragments or Minutes of Essays, Sections X-XIII from Philosophical Works (c. 1730) The Reception of Locke’s Politics: volume 2The Craftsman, Nos 151 and 441 (24 May 1729 and 14 December 1734) The London Journal, Nos 687 and 756 (26 August 1732 and 22 December 1733) The Daily Gazeteer, No. 150 (20 December 1735) ‘Of the Original Contract’ from Essays, Moral and Political (1748) Of Civil Polity (1753)

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    Edited by Mark Goldie