Antidote to Marx
Colin Kidd: Oh, I know Locke!, 4 January 2024
America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life
by Claire Rydell Arcenas.
Chicago, 265 pp., $25, October,978 0 226 82933 3 Show More
by Claire Rydell Arcenas.
Chicago, 265 pp., $25, October,
“... leadership of Shaftesbury unsuccessfully tried to exclude King Charles II’s Catholic brother, James, Duke of York, from the succession. Locke’s First Treatise was also a response to the posthumous publication in 1680 of Patriarcha by the early 17th-century royalist Sir Robert Filmer, which claimed that absolute monarchy derived from the paternal ... ”