In this volume, prominent political theorist Michael Zuckert
presents an important and pathbreaking set of meditations on the
thought of John Locke. In more than a dozen provocative essays,
many appearing in print for the first time, Zuckert explores the
complexity of Locke's engagement with his philosophical and
theological predecessors, his profound influence on later liberal
thinkers, and his amazing success in transforming the political
understanding of the Anglo-American world. At the same time, he
also demonstrates Locke's continuing relevance in current debates
involving such prominent thinkers as Rawls and MacIntyre.
Zuckert's careful reconsideration of Locke's role as "launcher"
of liberalism involves a sustained engagement with the
hermeneutical issues surrounding Locke, an innovator who faced
special rhetorical needs in addressing his contemporaries and the
future. It also involves highlighting the novelty of Locke's
position by examining his stance toward the philosophical and
religious traditions in place when he wrote.
Zuckert argues that neither of the dominant ways of
understanding Locke's relations to his predecessors and
contemporaries is adequate; he is not well seen as a follower of
any orthodoxy nor of any anti-orthodoxy of his day, either
philosophical or theological. He found a path to innovation that
was philosophically radical but which was also able to connect with
prevailing and accepted traditions. That allowed him to exercise a
practical influence in history rarely, if ever, matched by any
other philosopher.
Zuckert illustrates that influence by showing how William
Blackstone used Lockean philosophy to reshape the common law and
how the Americans of the eighteenth century used Lockean philosophy
to reshape Whig political thought. Zuckert argues that Locke's
philosophy has continuing philosophic and political force, a
proposition he demonstrates by arguing that Locke presents a form
of political philosophy superior to that of the liberal theorists
of our day and that he has solid rejoinders to contemporary critics
of liberalism.
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