Second Treatise of Government

John Locke, C. B. Macpherson

Hackett Publishing, Mar 1, 1980 - 148 pages

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.

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User Review  - DinadansFriend - LibraryThing

Locke states one of the building blocks of the concept of individual rights, that finally civil government exists because of an implied agreement to create a structure to control both the right of ...

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User Review  - Adrianmb - LibraryThing

When you examine the "axioms" of his doctrine, it is very difficult to take his posterior developments very seriously as political theory. What if access to land is limited?

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• Title: Second Treatise of Government; The Library of liberal arts, no. 21. Political science
• Authors: John Locke, C. B. Macpherson
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing, 1980
• ISBN: 1603844961, 9781603844963
• Length: 148 pages