John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible

ISBN-13: 9781108428187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 430 str.

Yechiel Leiter

Opis

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?

Spis treści

1. Retrieving the lost honor of the first treatise; 2. Locke's unusual natural law; 3. Equality and liberty: the role of imago dei vs. domineering phantom; 4. Property and charity: the biblical contours of Lockean economics; 5. On rebellion: what makes a revolution glorious?; 6. The fall and the extent of human depravity.