Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles.. by Locke, John - 1994

1994. Legal Classics Library, 1994.. Legal Classics Library, 1994. Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Later is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government. London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1698. 358 pp. New York: The Legal Classics Library, 1994. Full calf, raised bands, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Else fine. $35. * Reprint of the third edition. "[Locke] has two purposes in view: to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the Monarch, as it had been put forward by Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, and to establish a theory which would reconcile the liberty of the citizen with political order. (...) The constructive doctrines which are elaborated in the second treatise became the basis of social and political philosophy for generations. Labor is the origin and justification of property; contract or consent is the ground of government and fixes its limits. Behind both doctrines lies the idea of the independence of the individual person. The state of nature knows no government; but in it, as in political society, men are subject to the moral law, which is the law of God. Men are born free and equal in rights.": Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.