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19. The Second Treatise of Government

Year: 2016

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Outlines a theory of civil society. Locke begins by describing the state of nature, a picture much more stable than Thomas Hobbes' state of "war of every man against every man," and argues that all men are created equal in the state of nature by God

Source: Columbia University Press eBooks

DOI: 10.7312/blau17412-025

Author: John Locke

Language: English

Topic: Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1532477936

FWCI: 726.6

Cites: 1

Cited by: 1,278

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