God, Locke, and Equality

God, Locke, and Equality
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2002
Genre: Equality
ISBN: 9780511072659

This concise new study from a senior political philosopher looks at the principle of equality in the thought of John Locke. Throughout the text Jeremy Waldron discusses contemporary approaches to equality and rival interpretations of Locke, and this gives the whole an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement.

God, Locke, and Equality

God, Locke, and Equality
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2002
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780511330483

"In this concise and engaging book, Jeremy Waldron explores these questions in the company of the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke. Waldron believes that Locke provides us with 'as well-worked-out a theory of basic equality as we have in the canon of political philosophy.' But for us it is a challenging theory because its foundations are unabashedly religious. God has created us equal, says Locke, and a proper grasp of the implications of this equality is inseparable from an understanding of ordinary men and women as creatures of God, created in his image and 'made to last during his, not one anothers Pleasure'." "But this is not just a book about Locke. God, Locke, and Equality discusses contemporary approaches to equality as well as rival interpretations of Locke, and this dual agenda gives the whole book an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement. Indispensable for Locke scholars and for those who study the foundations of equality and the relation between politics and religion, it will be of interest also to philosophers, political theorists, lawyers, and theologians around the world."--Jacket.

God, Locke, and Equality

God, Locke, and Equality
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2002
Genre: Equality
ISBN: 9786610418398

"In this concise and engaging book, Jeremy Waldron explores these questions in the company of the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke. Waldron believes that Locke provides us with 'as well-worked-out a theory of basic equality as we have in the canon of political philosophy.' But for us it is a challenging theory because its foundations are unabashedly religious. God has created us equal, says Locke, and a proper grasp of the implications of this equality is inseparable from an understanding of ordinary men and women as creatures of God, created in his image and 'made to last during his, not one anothers Pleasure'." "But this is not just a book about Locke. God, Locke, and Equality discusses contemporary approaches to equality as well as rival interpretations of Locke, and this dual agenda gives the whole book an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement. Indispensable for Locke scholars and for those who study the foundations of equality and the relation between politics and religion, it will be of interest also to philosophers, political theorists, lawyers, and theologians around the world."--Jacket.

John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible

John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible
Author: Yechiel M. Leiter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108428185

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?

God, Locke, and Equality

God, Locke, and Equality
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521890571

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John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus

John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus
Author: Greg Forster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2005-02-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781139444378

The aim of this book is twofold: to explain the reconciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke, and to explore the relevance of that reconciliation for politics in our own time. Confronted with deep social divisions over ultimate beliefs, Locke sought to unite society in a single liberal community. Reason could identify divine moral laws that would be acceptable to members of all cultural groups, thereby justifying the authority of government. Greg Forster demonstrates that Locke's theory is liberal and rational but also moral and religious, providing an alternative to the two extremes of religious fanaticism and moral relativism. This account of Locke's thought will appeal to specialists and advanced students across philosophy, political science and religious studies.

One Another’s Equals

One Another’s Equals
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674659767

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. "More Than Merely Equal Consideration"? -- 2. Prescriptivity and Redundancy -- 3. Looking for a Range Property -- 4. Power and Scintillation -- 5. A Religious Basis for Equality? -- 6. The Profoundly Disabled as Our Human Equals -- Index