Second Treatise of Government - Softcover

Locke, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975986024 ISBN 13: 9781975986025

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

John Locke's seminal and tremendously influential treatise on the nature of society and the role of government, covering themes including: the state of nature, conquest and slavery, property, representative government, and the right to revolution. Locke's writing influenced philosophers and politicians, including the leaders of the American Revolution and the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.

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John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. This influence is reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin for modern conceptions of identity and "the self", figuring prominently in the later works of philosophers such as David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Locke was the first Western philosopher to define the self through a continuity of "consciousness." He also postulated that the mind was a "blank slate" or "tabula rasa"; that is, contrary to Cartesian or Christian philosophy, Locke maintained that people are born without innate ideas.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1975986024
• ISBN 13: 9781975986025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82