Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-414) and index.
Contents:
Retrieving the lost honor of the first treatise -- Locke£s unusual natural law -- Equality and liberty: the role of Imago Dei vs. domineering phantom -- Property and charity: the biblical contours of Lockean economics -- On rebellion: what makes a revolution glorious? -- The fall and the extent of human depravity.
Summary:
John Locke's treatises on government make frequent reference to the Hebrew Bible, while references to the New Testament are almost completely absent. To date, scholarship has not addressed this surprising characteristic of the treatises. In this book, Yechiel Leiter offers a Hebraic reading of Locke's fundamental political text. In doing so, he formulates a new school of thought in Lockean political interpretation and challenges existing ones. He shows how a grasp of the Hebraic underpinnings of Locke's political theory resolves many of the problems, as well as scholarly debates, that are inherent in reading Locke.
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