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In philosophical, political, religious and educational thought the philospopher John Locke (1632-1704), inspired the leading minds of both Europe and America. He argued against Descartes and Spinoza's exaggerated rationalism, waking up philosophy to a new empiricism. His ideas formed the moral basis for the ideas of Voltaire, Montesquieu and the French Encyclopedistes, and in America greatly influenced Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Jefferson. This set contains all the famous philosophical works, plus a life of the author. All correspondence is placed together, and the non-correspondence items are positioned to follow the relevant works. It contains works on economics, and gardening, as well as A History of Navigation.
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.
Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century, and Locke's works are often ? rightly ? presented as foundations of the Age of Enlightenment. Both the Essay and the Second Treatise (by far the more influential of the Two Treatises) were widely read by Locke's contemporaries and near contemporaries. His eighteenth-century readers included philosophers, historians and political theorists, but also community and political leaders, engaged laypersons, and others eager to participate in the expanding print culture of the era. His epistemological message that the mind at birth was a blank slate, waiting to be filled, complemented his political message that human beings were free and equal and had the right to create and direct the governments under which they lived. Today, Locke continues to be an accessible author. He provides food for thought to university professors and their students, but has no less to offer the general reader who is eager to enjoy the classics of world literature.
Peter Laslett's edition of Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, and has been read and used by students of politcal theory throughout the world. Dr. Laslett demonstrated that the version usually cited was in no way a representation of that 'text for posterity' Locke left behind, and exhaustive analysis of Lock's private papers and personal library caused Dr. Laslett radically to alter the received notion that the "Two Treatises" were in any sense a rationalization of the events of 1688: Locke's texts were rather a call for a revolution yet to come.
John Locke (1632 1704) is widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment philosophers. This volume, edited by J. W. Adamson and published as a second edition in 1922, contains two of John Locke's essays concerning education; Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) and Of the Conduct of the Understanding (1706). Some Thoughts Concerning Education expands on Locke's pioneering theory of mind by explaining how to educate a child using three complementary methods: the development of a healthy body; the formation of a virtuous mind; and the pursuit of an academic curriculum including the emerging sciences, mathematics and languages. Of the Conduct of the Understanding continues the theme of the earlier essay by describing how to develop rational thought. For over a century after the publication of these essays, John Locke's views on education were considered authoritative, and his work was translated into almost all major European languages.
This book brings together a comprehensive collection of the writings of one of the greatest philosophers in the Western tradition. Along with five of John Locke's major essays, seventy shorter essays are included that stand outside the canonical works that Locke published during his lifetime. For the first time students will be able to fully explore the evolution of Locke's ideas concerning the philosophical foundations of morality and sociability, the boundary of church and state, the shaping of constitutions, and the conduct of government and public policy.
A new and manageable edition of Locke has been badly needed. Professor Ramsey's judicious editing of these important texts fills the need and greatly enhances the value of the texts for the modern reader. Included are "The Reasonablesness of Christianity , "A Discourse on Miracles , "A Further Note on Miracles , and some passages from "A Third letter concerning Toleration . Each work is prefaced by an introduction, giving the
background of its writing and indicating its contemporary
significance.
This is the revised version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed edition of Two Treatises of Government, which is widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas, read and used by students of political theory throughout the world. This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys advances in Locke scholarship since publication of the second edition. In the introduction, Dr Laslett shows that the Two Treatises were not a rationalisation of the events of 1688 but rather a call for a revolution yet to come.
Originally published in 1960, this analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own right.
This is a new revised version of Dr. Laslett's standard edition of Two Treatises. First published in 1960, and based on an analysis of the whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers. The Introduction and text have been revised to incorporate references to recent scholarship since the second edition and the bibliography has been updated.
Limborch's edition and Popple's translation, as on whether it is true that Popple translated the Epistola into English 'a l'insu de Mr Locke', and consequently whether Locke was right or wrong in saying that the translation was made 'without my privity'. Long research into documents hitherto unpublished, or little known, or badly used, has persuaded me that Locke not only knew that Popple had undertaken to translate the Gouda Latin text, but also that Locke followed Popple's work very closely, and even that the second English edition of 1690 was edited by Locke himself. In these circumstances it does not seem possible to speak of an original text, that in Latin, and an English translation; rather they are two different versions of Locke's thoughts on Toleration. The accusations of unreliability levelled at Popple therefore fall to the ground, and the Latin and English texts acquire equal rights to our trust, since they both deserve the same place among Locke's works. Consequently the expression 'without my privity', which a number of people had seen as revealing an innate weakness in Locke's moral character, reacquires its precise meaning: testifying to Locke's profound modesty and integrity.
This book, one of John Locke's (1632-1704) major works, is
primarily about moral education--its role in creating a responsible
adult and the importance of virtue as a transmitter of culture.
However, Locke's most detailed and comprehensive guide also ranges
over such practical topics as the
"A""Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings" brings
together the principal writings on religious toleration and freedom
of expression by one of the greatest philosophers in the Anglophone
tradition: John Locke. The son of Puritans, Locke (1632-1704)
became an Oxford academic, a physician, and, through the patronage
of the Earl of Shaftesbury, secretary to the Council of Trade and
Plantations and to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina. A colleague
of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton and a member of the English Royal
Society, Locke lived and wrote at the dawn of the Enlightenment, a
period during which traditional mores, values, and customs were
being questioned. Mark Goldie is Reader in British Intellectual History, University of Cambridge and is co-editor of "The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700" and editor of "John Locke: Two Treatises of Government "and "John Locke: Political Essays." David Womersley is Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is "Divinity and State."
John Locke's subtle and influential defense of religious toleration as argued in his seminal Letter Concerning Toleration (1685) appears in this edition as introduced by one of our most distinguished political theorists and historians of political thought. James H. Tully is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria.
John Locke's classic work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
laid the foundation of British empiricism and remains of enduring
interest today. Rejecting doctrines of innate principles and ideas,
Locke shows how all our ideas, even the most abstract and complex,
are grounded in human experience--attained by sensation of external
things or reflection upon our mental activities. A thorough
examination of the communication of ideas through language and the
convention of taking words as signs of ideas paves the way for his
penetrating critique of the limitations of ideas and the extent of
our knowledge of ourselves, the world, God and morals. This
abridgement, based on P.H. Nidditch's acclaimed critical edition,
retains in full all key passages, thus enabling Locke's arguments
to be more clearly followed. The new introduction by Pauline
Phemister provides valuable background on Locke's essay,
illuminating its arguments and conclusions. The book also includes
a chronological table of significant events, select bibliography,
succinct explanatory notes, and an index--all of which supply
additional historical information and aids to navigating the
text.
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John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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