Two Treatises of Government - Couverture souple

Locke, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1453857710 ISBN 13 : 9781453857717

Editeur : Createspace Independent Pub, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, originally published anonymously, is a work of political philosophy that begins by attacking patriarchalism, specifically that of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha. Having aptly refuted patriarchalism, a competing contemporary theory of his time, Locke moves on to outline an ideal theory of politics and society that responds to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes, another contemporary. Both Hobbes and Locke agree that the state of nature is one of chaos and competition; Locke moves on to outline the way in which we bring order to this state of nature through certain nature rights and contracts to each other. These essays form the body of work that contributed to Locke's status as a figure ahead among political theorists.

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Locke (1632–1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Createspace Independent Pub
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1453857710
• ISBN 13: 9781453857717
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168