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Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
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Three of John Locke's finest works, which expound political and
religious ideas revolutionary in their time, are presented together
in this printing. When Dutch monarch William of Orange ascended to
the English throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, burning
questions over the best form of governance for England were
prominent among the intelligentsia of the era. It was a time when
England grappled with incremental transition from monarchy to early
forms of democracy and voting. In the first treatise of government
Locke proceeds to attack and dissect his prominent contemporary
Robert Filmer, who was broadly in favour of absolute monarchy under
the principle of divine right. The allusions to the Biblical Adam,
wherein the monarch can be intimated as a continuation of the first
man ever created, are debunked by Locke who asserts that God never
asserted that one man had province to rule over all other human
beings.
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