Bibliograph

Second treatise of government, an essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil government

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Second treatise of government, an essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil government

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Second treatise of government

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Crofts classics

Sub title

an essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil government

Summary

The central principles of what today is broadly known as political liberalism were made current in large part by Lockes Second Treatise of Government (1690). The principles of individual liberty, the rule of law, government by consent of the people, and the right to private property are taken for granted as fundamental to the human condition now. Most liberal theorists writing today look back to Locke as the source of their ideas. Some maintain that religious fundamentalism, "post-modernism," and socialism are today the only remaining ideological threats to liberalism. To the extent that this is true, these ideologies are ultimately attacks on the ideas that Locke, arguably more than any other, helped to make the universal vocabulary of political discourse

Target audience

adult

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