John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Ca

We know more about the development of John Locke's ideas than we do about almost any other philosopher's before modern times. This book brings together a compre

This welcome anthology presents for the first time in one volume John Dewey's major political writings. Ranging throughout his career, the selections display De

This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought. John Dunn restores Locke's ideas to their exact context, and s

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page