The Outlaw John Locke: & why liberalism is worth fighting for - Couverture souple

Watkins, John MacBeath

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798678052292

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

This is a book about the radicalism of liberalism. For most of human history, we have been governed by force, faith, and custom, and there are people today who would like to go back to that. The Enlightenment produced a theory that we could do better, and use logic to design a system of government that would allow us to be fully human, to exercise our reason and creativity. This political theory is the foundation of liberal democrcy.

Liberalism has produced the largest, most successful Utopian experiment of all time. Yet, most people don't realize how radical liberalism was at its inception or how radical it still is. Thinkers like John Locke proposed an entirely new basis for the legitimacy of governments, a clean break with the rule of force, faith, and custom that had been the basis for government from the beginning of history. Locke himself argued that there was a right to revolution if a terrible ruler could not be removed by other means, and fled his native country after he was implicated in a plot to kill the king. He could only safely return in the wake of an invading army. A period of polarization and religious wars made the old basis for the legitimacy of governments untenable, leading to a revolution in how society is organized. The Outlaw John Locke shows how a philosophy that says we are all born our own masters revolutionized the way we think about issues from government to marriage, and how we take this revolution for granted at our peril. We live in a time of unprecedented wealth, scientific knowledge, and cultural attainment, but fail to understand what brought us these things, and could lose them if we don't defend them.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798678052292
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg