John lockes philosophy on government

work by John Locke

Two Treatises of Government (full title: Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown.

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The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.

The book is a key foundational text in the theory of liberalism.

This publication contrasts with former political works by Locke himself. In Two Tracts on Government, written in , Locke defends a very conservative position; however, Locke never published it.^[1] In , Locke co-authored the Fundamental Constitutions of john lockes philosophy on government5 GIXIS