REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND LOCKE'S TWO TREATISES OF GOV ERNMENT: RADICALISM AND LOCKEAN POLITICAL THEORY

In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 429-486

Abstract

THE AUTHOR ARGUES THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY'S EFFORT TO PROMOTE A REVOLUTION, WITH WHICH LOCKE AND THE TWO TREATISES WERE ASSOCIATED, BROUGHT TOGETHER RADICALS WHO, IN THEIR SOCIAL COMPOSITION AND, SOMEWHAT, IN THEIR POLITICAL OBJECTIVES, DIFFERED FROM WHIG MAGNATES WHO "MANAGED" THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION OF 1689. LOCKE'S LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT HAD CLEAR LINKS WITH IDEAS OF THE CIVIL WAR RADICALS.