Author: Greg Forster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139444378
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus
Author: Greg Forster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139444378
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139444378
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible
Author: Yechiel M. Leiter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428185
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428185
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?
Launching Liberalism
Author: Michael P. Zuckert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this volume, prominent political theorist Michael Zuckert presents an important and pathbreaking set of meditations on the thought of John Locke. In more than a dozen provocative essays, many appearing in print for the first time, Zuckert explores the complexity of Locke's engagement with his philosophical and theological predecessors, his profound influence on later liberal thinkers, and his amazing success in transforming the political understanding of the Anglo-American world. At the same time, he also demonstrates Locke's continuing relevance in current debates involving such prominent thinkers as Rawls and MacIntyre. Zuckert's careful reconsideration of Locke's role as "launcher" of liberalism involves a sustained engagement with the hermeneutical issues surrounding Locke, an innovator who faced special rhetorical needs in addressing his contemporaries and the future. It also involves highlighting the novelty of Locke's position by examining his stance toward the philosophical and religious traditions in place when he wrote. Zuckert argues that neither of the dominant ways of understanding Locke's relations to his predecessors and contemporaries is adequate; he is not well seen as a follower of any orthodoxy nor of any anti-orthodoxy of his day, either philosophical or theological. He found a path to innovation that was philosophically radical but which was also able to connect with prevailing and accepted traditions. That allowed him to exercise a practical influence in history rarely, if ever, matched by any other philosopher. Zuckert illustrates that influence by showing how William Blackstone used Lockean philosophy to reshape the common law and how the Americans of the eighteenth century used Lockean philosophy to reshape Whig political thought. Zuckert argues that Locke's philosophy has continuing philosophic and political force, a proposition he demonstrates by arguing that Locke presents a form of political philosophy superior to that of the liberal theorists of our day and that he has solid rejoinders to contemporary critics of liberalism.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this volume, prominent political theorist Michael Zuckert presents an important and pathbreaking set of meditations on the thought of John Locke. In more than a dozen provocative essays, many appearing in print for the first time, Zuckert explores the complexity of Locke's engagement with his philosophical and theological predecessors, his profound influence on later liberal thinkers, and his amazing success in transforming the political understanding of the Anglo-American world. At the same time, he also demonstrates Locke's continuing relevance in current debates involving such prominent thinkers as Rawls and MacIntyre. Zuckert's careful reconsideration of Locke's role as "launcher" of liberalism involves a sustained engagement with the hermeneutical issues surrounding Locke, an innovator who faced special rhetorical needs in addressing his contemporaries and the future. It also involves highlighting the novelty of Locke's position by examining his stance toward the philosophical and religious traditions in place when he wrote. Zuckert argues that neither of the dominant ways of understanding Locke's relations to his predecessors and contemporaries is adequate; he is not well seen as a follower of any orthodoxy nor of any anti-orthodoxy of his day, either philosophical or theological. He found a path to innovation that was philosophically radical but which was also able to connect with prevailing and accepted traditions. That allowed him to exercise a practical influence in history rarely, if ever, matched by any other philosopher. Zuckert illustrates that influence by showing how William Blackstone used Lockean philosophy to reshape the common law and how the Americans of the eighteenth century used Lockean philosophy to reshape Whig political thought. Zuckert argues that Locke's philosophy has continuing philosophic and political force, a proposition he demonstrates by arguing that Locke presents a form of political philosophy superior to that of the liberal theorists of our day and that he has solid rejoinders to contemporary critics of liberalism.
God, Locke, and Equality
Author: Jeremy Waldron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511072659
Category : Equality
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511072659
Category : Equality
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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.
John Locke and the Ethics of Belief
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521559096
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A new view of Locke's ethics of belief and his contribution to modern philosophy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521559096
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A new view of Locke's ethics of belief and his contribution to modern philosophy.
Two Treatises of Government
Author: John Locke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Locke on Personal Identity
Author: Galen Strawson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691161003
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves—yet it is widely thought to be wrong. In this book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke’s critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid. Indeed, far from refuting Locke, they illustrate his fundamental point. Strawson argues that the root error is to take Locke’s use of the word "person" as merely a term for a standard persisting thing, like "human being." In actuality, Locke uses "person" primarily as a forensic or legal term geared specifically to questions about praise and blame, punishment and reward. This point is familiar to some philosophers, but its full consequences have not been worked out, partly because of a further error about what Locke means by the word "conscious." When Locke claims that your personal identity is a matter of the actions that you are conscious of, he means the actions that you experience as your own in some fundamental and immediate manner. Clearly and vigorously argued, this is an important contribution both to the history of philosophy and to the contemporary philosophy of personal identity.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691161003
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves—yet it is widely thought to be wrong. In this book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke’s critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid. Indeed, far from refuting Locke, they illustrate his fundamental point. Strawson argues that the root error is to take Locke’s use of the word "person" as merely a term for a standard persisting thing, like "human being." In actuality, Locke uses "person" primarily as a forensic or legal term geared specifically to questions about praise and blame, punishment and reward. This point is familiar to some philosophers, but its full consequences have not been worked out, partly because of a further error about what Locke means by the word "conscious." When Locke claims that your personal identity is a matter of the actions that you are conscious of, he means the actions that you experience as your own in some fundamental and immediate manner. Clearly and vigorously argued, this is an important contribution both to the history of philosophy and to the contemporary philosophy of personal identity.
Locke's Touchy Subjects
Author: Nicholas Jolley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198737092
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Nicholas Jolley shows that the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality are more central to Locke's philosophy than has been realized. He argues that Locke takes up unorthodox positions in both cases, and holds that Locke's criticisms of Descartes were controversial responses to challenging metaphysical and theological issues.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198737092
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Nicholas Jolley shows that the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality are more central to Locke's philosophy than has been realized. He argues that Locke takes up unorthodox positions in both cases, and holds that Locke's criticisms of Descartes were controversial responses to challenging metaphysical and theological issues.
Locke on Persons and Personal Identity
Author: Ruth Boeker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198846754
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Locke on Persons and Personal Identity offers a fresh perspective on Locke's accounts of personal identity within the context of his broader philosophical ideas and the philosophical debates of his day.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198846754
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Locke on Persons and Personal Identity offers a fresh perspective on Locke's accounts of personal identity within the context of his broader philosophical ideas and the philosophical debates of his day.
Feminist Interpretations of John Locke
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046921
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046921
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description