The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'
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- 0521271398
- ISBN-13
- 9780521271394
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982-09-09
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- John Dunn
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In this analysis Locke emerges as not merely a contributor to English constitutional thought or a reflector of the socio-economic change in seventeenth-century England, but as an essentially Calvinist natural theologian.
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