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Locke affirmed an explicit right to revolution in Two Treatises of Government: “whenever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left ...
Oct 5, 2014 · Locke argues that Hobbes has not adequately recognized how easily government itself can become a threat to security and peace – a threat far graver than the threats from groups and individuals in the state of nature.
- Thomas L. Pangle, Timothy W. Burns
- 2014
Jun 28, 2024 · 5 Quotes by Locke Explained. Locke's teachings highlight the importance of experience, individual rights, and freedom, shaping our understanding of knowledge and governance.
Apr 24, 2015 · Marshall goes on to connect Locke's notion of the origins of government as “an individual executive power that was transferred to the political society and thus to the government” to earlier formulations by Grotius and Almain.
- Peter Judson Richards
- 2002
This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world.
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ABSTRACT: This paper describes how Locke's Two Treatises of Government was read in Britain from Josiah Tucker to Peter Laslett. It focuses in particular upon how Locke's readers responded to his detailed and lengthy engagement with the patriarchalist political thought of Sir Robert Filmer.
