John Locke and Modern Life

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Democratization of Mind
The Intellectual Context of the Essay
The Attack on Innate Ideas
Locke’s Way of Ideas
Liberty and Mind
The Problem of Demonstrative Morality
Philosophy and Politics: Democratization of Mind
2 The State of Nature
The “Very Strange Doctrine” of Natural Executive Power
Natural Liberty and the Problem of Punishment
The Individualist Implications of Natural Punishment
The Problem of Moral Knowledge Redux
Property and Self-Ownership
3 Constitutional Government
Locke’s Constitutional Problematic
The Natural History of Executive Power
The Constitution of Government
The Civil Executive
Prerogative and the Constitution
Locke and Liberal Constitutionalism
4 The Natural Rights Family
Locke and Modern Feminism
Conjugal Society and the Problem of Nature
A Natural Basis of Inequality?
The Historical Origins of Patriarchy
The Natural Rights Family
Locke’s Legacy on the Family
5 Locke’s Liberal Education
The thoughts: Education as Socialization
The Thoughts: Training in Virtue
Higher Education: The Conduct
Education and the Public
6 The Church
The Epistemology of Faith
The Case for Toleration
The Problem of a National Church
Religion and Morality in the reasonableness
The Politics of Toleration
7 International Relations
The International State of Nature and the Doctrine of Nonaggression
The Problem of Sovereignty
International Society
Locke and Colonialism
Locke and the Ethics of Intervention
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index