The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since.
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Features the central principles of what is broadly known as political liberalism.
Macpherson provides for his readers a tightly written, meaty, and often invigorating critical assessment of Locke's argument. In it one finds some of the best of Macpherson's now famous criticism of liberal-democratic government. --Gregory E. Pyrcz in Canadian Philosophical Review
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ISBN
9780915144860
Publisert
1980-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Vekt
142 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
148

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Redaktør

Biographical note

John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician.