1st Edition

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 6 From the 1690s to the 1830s

By Mark Goldie Copyright 2000
    414 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 6 Wealth, Property and Commerce, 1696-1832 Introductory note Concerning Coining the New Money lighter. In Answer to Mr. Lock’s Considerations (1696) Decus et Tutamen: Or, our New Money as now Coined (1696) Extracts from The Present State of England, as to Coin and Public Charges [in which] Mr. Lock’s Chief Positions are Refuted (1697) ‘Animadversions on the Writings of Dr. Lock’ from Sir Thomas Colepepper’s Tracts Concerning Usury Reprinted (1708) An Attempt to Show how far the Land and Trade of England are Affected by Usury (c. 1712?) An Essay on Money and Bullion. Wherein are Considered . . Mr. Lock’s Considerations (1718) ‘An Enquiry into the Right of the Aboriginal Natives to the Land in America 'from Roger Wolcott, Poetical Meditations (1725) Extracts from The Craftsman, No. 71, 11 November 1727 and No. 336, 9 December 1732 ‘Mr. Locke’s Opinions Examined’ from Institutes of Natural Law (1754) The Rights of Man (1775) ‘Of the Right of Property in Land as Derived from the Law of Naturé* from An Essay on the Right of Property in Land (1781) ‘In What the Right of Property is Founded’//tow The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) An extract from Rights of Nature, against the Usurpations of Establishments (1796) Letters 1-4 from The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832) Appendix. An extract from Sociology for the South, Or the Failure of Free Society (1854) Index

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    Edited by Mark Goldie