Second Treatise of Government
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Publishing Details
Second Treatise of Government
By (Author) John Locke
Edited by C. B. Macpherson
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
1st June 1980
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
320.01
Physical Properties
Hardback
148
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
256g
Description
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 introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since.
Reviews
Macpherson provides for his readers a tightly written, meaty, and often invigorating critical assessment of Locke's argument. In it one finds some of the best of Macpherson's now famous criticism of liberal-democratic government. --Gregory E. Pyrcz in Canadian Philosophical Review
Author Bio
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician.
