THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT (AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL, EXTENT AND ENDC OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT) and A LETER CONCERNING TOLERATION
by Locke, John
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The Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha and the Second Treatise outlines a theory of political or civil society based on natural rights and contract theory.
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- J. Wyatt Books (CA)
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- 035362
- Title
- THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT (AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL, EXTENT AND ENDC OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT) and A LETER CONCERNING TOLERATION
- Author
- Locke, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Government, Political Science
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