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Two Treatises of Government (full title: Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government ) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 ...
Two Tracts on Government is a work of political philosophy written from 1660 to 1662 by John Locke but remained unpublished until 1967. It bears a similar name to a later, more famous, political philosophy work by Locke, namely Two Treatises of Government. The two works, however, have very different positions. [clarification needed]
Chapter 19 of Two Treatises of Government notes that "when such a single person, or prince, sets up his own arbitrary will, in place of the laws, which are the will of the society, declared by the legislative, then the legislative is changed." Locke lists changing the legislature without the people's knowledge or consent as another situation ...
Sir Robert Filmer (c. 1588 – 26 May 1653) was an English political theorist who defended the divine right of kings.His best known work, Patriarcha, published posthumously in 1680, was the target of numerous Whig attempts at rebuttal, including Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government, James Tyrrell's Patriarcha Non Monarcha and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Two Treatises of Government: John Locke: 1660: ... books except the Bible and is one of the most important mathematical ...
The Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration of 1689 were published by Churchill, with other works by Locke. [ 1 ] Churchill also managed money and business for Locke.
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689; John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1689; Anne Conway, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 1690; Gottfried Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding, 1704 (printed 1765) George Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710
Hollis's main contribution to public service was protecting and advancing English liberty by circulating appropriate books on government. From 1754, he reprinted and distributed literature from the seventeenth-century, including works such as Toland's Life of Milton, tracts by Marchamont Nedham, Henry Neville, and Philip Sidney, and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government.