Locke Book

Series Introduction Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements

Part I: Intellectual Biography

Chapter 1. The Historical and Ideological Context of Locke's Political Philosophy
1. The Aims of This Work
2. A Century of Ideological and Political Conflict
3.The Political Authoritarianism of Robert Filmer
4.The Political Authoritarianism of Thomas Hobbes

Part II: Critical Exposition

Chapter 2. Natural Freedom, Natural Law, and Natural Rights
1. Perfect Freedom
2. The Inborn Constitution Program versus Divine Voluntarism
3. The Rational Pursuit of Happiness, Moral Equality, and the Reciprocity Argument
4. The Workmanship of God, the False Presumption, and the Like Reason Arguments
5. Reason, Motivation, and Compliance with the Law of Nature

Chapter 3. More State of Nature Rights
1. The Right to Act as Executor of the Law of Nature
2. The Earth as Common to all Mankind
3. Rights over Permissibly Appropriated Objects
4. The Provisos and their Satisfaction in the Pre-Monetary Phase
5. Money and the Satisfaction of the Provisos in the Commercial Phase
6 The Enough and As Good Proviso and the Poor Law

Chapter 4. From the State of Nature to the State
1. The Inconveniences of the State of Nature and the Resigning Up of Rights
2. Majoritarianism — Radically Constrained
3. The Doctrine of Consent

Chapter 5. Conquest, Resistance, and Dissolution
1. Conquest and Usurpation
2. Tyranny and Dissolution
3. Political Society as the Agent of Resistance
4. Inescapable Private Judgment

Chapter 6. Locke on Toleration
1. The Lockean State and Religious Liberty
2. Further Considerations against the Magistrate's Authority in Religious Matters
3. Locke versus Proast

Part III: Reception and Contemporary Relevance

Chapter 7. The Reception and Philosophical Legacy of Locke's Political Philosophy
1. The Reception of Locke's Political Thought
2. Individualism and Rights
3. The Role and Character of Rights
4. Property Rights and Prosperity
5. Consent and State Legitimacy

Bibliography Index