Search Results for: Second Treatise Of Government And A Letter Concerning Toleration

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page

In The Second Treatise of Government, John Locke answered two objectives: to refute the concept of the monarchy's divine right and to establish a theory reconci

As one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the origins of civil

This analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its ow