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Poli 212 Western
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Philosophy Professor Sammy Basu |
Introduction to Locke and the Two Treatises of Government |
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John Locke (1632-1704)
Context:
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658, r.1653-58)
INTERREGNUM
(1649-1660)
Leader of Parliamentary forces during English Revolution.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page101.asp
Charles II
(b.1630-r.1660-d.1685)
Presided over restoration of royal power in England.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page92.asp
Whigs and
Tories
JAMES II (r. 1685-88)
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page97.asp
William III
(b.1650-r.1698-d.1702)
and Mary II (b.1694-r.1689-d.1694)
Protestant
couple who displaced Mary's Catholic father James VII
as rulers of England.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page100.asp
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page3328.asp
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page74.asp
http://www.joergs-british-autographs.de/royals1.html
Social
and economic context
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide17/part07.html
http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/macro/5009/49.html
Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653)
theorist of
patriarchalism.
His
Patriarcha was not published until 1680, although written by
1630/31.
It was
published as Tory propaganda in the Exclusion Crisis
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/367/367-043.htm
and
also
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/351/351-172.htm#Filmer
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/bio.htm#Filmer
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/xfil.htm
John Locke:
not mb
Ivory sculpture of John Locke, David Le Marchand,
18th century
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl
of Shaftesbury
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp02773
Timeline
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/locke.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/#His
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/283/283%20session09.htm
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/367/john_locke.htm
cottage
http://www.wringtonsomerset.org.uk/walks/westhay/wh7a.htm
gravestone
http://www.wringtonsomerset.org.uk/morelocke/locketerce.html
Text:
Text:
http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtreat.htm
Engraving
facing title page of Gorges' America Painted
to the Life. London,
1659. [K.7.7]
University
of Glasgow Americana
other works:
on Natural law
On Toleration
1660
1667
John Locke. The Fundamental
Constitutions of Carolina. London: 1669.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/britobje.html
1676 Map of Carolina
Also
1690
1690
1692
1690s
A daily diary of the weather kept in tabular form by
the English philosopher John Locke from 1666-1703
in an
attempt to discern natural regularities. MS. Locke d.9, Bodleian
Library, Oxford