We know more about the development of John Locke's ideas than we do about almost any other philosopher's before modern times. This book brings together a comprehensive collection of the writings on politics and society that stand outside the canonical works which Locke published during his lifetime. In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 the three works by which he is chiefly known appeared: the Two Treatises of Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and A Letter Concerning Toleration, and the themes raised in these works had been reflected upon over many years. Mark Goldie's edition makes possible the fullest exploration of the evolution of Locke's ideas concerning the philosophical foundations of morality and sociability, the boundary of church and state, the shaping of constitutions, and the conduct of government and public policy.

A work by John Locke about education.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional wisdom on its head and argues that Locke secularizes religion, that is, makes it worldly, public, and political. In the name of diverse citizenship, Locke reconstructs religion as persuasion, speech, and fashion. He insists on a consensus that human rights are sacred insofar as humans are the creatures, and thus, the property of God. Drawing on a range of sources beyond Locke's own writings, Pritchard portrays the secular not as religion's separation from power, but rather as its affiliation with subtler, and sometimes insidious, forms of power. As a result, she captures the range of anxieties and conflicts attending religion's secularization: denunciations of promiscuous bodies freed from patriarchal religious and political formations, correlations between secular religion and colonialist education and conversion efforts, and more recently, condemnations of the coercive and injurious force of unrestricted religious speech.

John Locke was a 17th century English philosopher who was considered to be one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. Locke wrote on many different subjects including politics, religion, and education and he influenced other legendary philosophers including Voltaire and Rousseau. The First Treatise of Government is a book of political philosophy that Locke published anonymously in 1689. In the book Locke attacked patriarchalism as a refutation to Robert Filmer's Patriarcha.

John Locke was a 17th century English philosopher who was considered to be one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. Locke wrote on many different subjects including politics, religion, and education and he influenced other legendary philosophers including Voltaire and Rousseau. The Second Treatise of Government is a book of political philosophy that Locke published anonymously in 1689. In this book Locke presents his ideas for a better society based on natural rights and contract theory.

John Locke was a 17th century English philosopher who was considered to be one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. Locke wrote on many different subjects including politics, religion, and education and he influenced other legendary philosophers including Voltaire and Rousseau. The Two Treatises of Government are works of political philosophy that Locke published anonymously in 1689. In The First Treatise of Government, Locke attacked patriarchalism as a refutation to Robert Filmer's Patriarcha. In The Second Treatise of Government, Locke presents his ideas for a better society based on natural rights and contract theory.