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?

John Locke

John Locke
Author: Victor Nuovo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 019880055X

Early modern Europe was the birthplace of the modern secular outlook. During the seventeenth century nature and human society came to be regarded in purely naturalistic, empirical ways, and religion was made an object of critical historical study. John Locke was a central figure in all these events. This study of his philosophical thought shows that these changes did not happen smoothly or without many conflicts of belief: Locke, in the role of Christian Virtuoso, endeavoured to resolve them. He was an experimental natural philosopher, a proponent of the so-called 'new philosophy', a variety of atomism that emerged in early modern Europe. But he was also a practising Christian, and he professed confidence that the two vocations were not only compatible, but mutually sustaining. He aspired, without compromising his empirical stance, to unite the two vocations in a single philosophical endeavour with the aim of producing a system of Christian philosophy.

John Locke

John Locke
Author: Maurice Cranston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1979
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

John Locke

John Locke
Author: Geraint Parry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136526889

From earliest times Locke's writings have been the subject of controversy. An intellectual caught up in the politics of late 17th century England, his writings on politics reveal a man attempting to combine an analysis of the underlying principles of society with a deep commitment to a specific political stance and party. This study, first published in 1978 explains why Locke's vision of political life has continued to fascinate political thinkers of many different persuasions.

The Political Thought of John Locke

The Political Thought of John Locke
Author: John Dunn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1982-09-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316583155

This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought. John Dunn restores Locke's ideas to their exact context, and so stresses the historical question of what Locke in the Two Treatises of Government was intending to claim. By adopting this approach, he reveals the predominantly theological character of all Locke's thinking about politics and provides a convincing analysis of the development of Locke's thought. In a polemical concluding section, John Dunn argues that liberal and Marxist interpretations of Locke's politics have failed to grasp his meaning. Locke emerges as not merely a contributor to the development of English constitutional thought, or as a reflector of socio-economic change in seventeenth-century England, but as essentially a Calvinist natural theologian.

John Locke and America

John Locke and America
Author: Barbara Arneil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780198279679

This treatise offers an original interpretation of Locke's doctrine of property, a full account of his writings and activities in relation to the Earl of Shaftesbury, and a new interpretation of Locke's lasting influence on American political thought.

John Locke's Christianity

John Locke's Christianity
Author: Diego Lucci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108836917

Provides a thorough analysis and reassessment of Locke's original, heterodox, internally coherent version of Protestant Christianity.