Two Treatises of Government (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Locke
- First Published: 1690
- Type of Work: Politics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Social reform, Politics, Leadership, Individuality, Law or legislation, Seventeenth century, Ethics, Government, Societies
Critical Evaluation:
John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government establish the author as the intellectual father of the modern constitutional state. The political theories set forth are the foundation for later political philosophers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose The Social Contract (1762) influenced the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. Before Thomas Jefferson wrote the American The Declaration of Independence in 1776, he read and absorbed Locke’s Two Treatises of Government.
Locke lived during a time of tremendous political...
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