John Locke’s ‘Two Treatises on Civil Government is a critique of
The First of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1689) is a direct critique of Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, which defended the divine and patriarchal right of…
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The First of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1689) is a direct critique of Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, which defended the divine and patriarchal right of kings. The Second Treatise sets out Locke's own theory of natural rights, consent and limited government. Many readers assume the target was Hobbes, but Hobbes is never the named opponent in the Two Treatises.
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