Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Locke's liberalism

Locke's life

Locke before Shaftesbury

Locke and Shaftesbury

Locke and Tyrrell

The First Treatise of Government

The Second Treatise of Government

Interlude: seeds and trees, locks and ciphers

A Letter Concerning Toleration

Some more equal than others?

Notes

Suggestions for Further Reading

A Note on the Texts

1. Letter to S.H. [Henry Stubbe] (mid-September? 1659; published 1967)

2. Letter to Tom (2o October 1659; published 1976)

3. From: 'Question: Whether the civil magistrate may lawfully impose and determine the use of indifferent things in reference to religious worship. Answer: Yes' (First Tract on Government, 1660; published 1961)

4. 'Preface to the Reader' from the First Tract on Government (1661; published 1961)

5. 'Question: Can the civil magistrate specify indifferent things to be included within the order of divine worship, and impose them upon the people? Answer: Yes' (Second Tract on Government, c. 1662; published 1961). Translated from the Latin

6. 'Question: Is each man's private interest the foundation of the law of nature? Answer: No' (Essays on the Lam of Nature, No. VIII, 1664; published 1954). Translated from the Latin

7. Letter to the Hon. Robert Boyle (12/22 December 1665; published 1744)

8. An Essay Concerning Toleration (1667; published 1876)

9. The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669; published c. 1670)

10. 'Philanthropy, or The Christian Philosophers' (1675; published 1972)

11. 'Obligation of Penal Laws' (Journal, 25 February 1676; published 1829)

12. 'Law' (Journal, 21 April 1678; published 1829)

13. 'Credit, Disgrace' (Journal, 12 December 1678; published 1829)

14. 'The Idea We Have of God' (Journal, 1 August 1680; published 1829)

15. 'Inspiration' (Journal, 3 April 1681; published 1829)

16. 'Virtus' (1681; from the 1661 Commonplace Book; published 1829)

17. From The First Treatise of Government (c. 1681, published 1689)

CHAPTER FIVE: Of Adam's Title to sovereignty by the Subjection of Eve

CHAPTER NINE: Of Monarchy by Inheritance from Adam

18. 'Two sorts of Knowledge' (Journal, 26 June 1681; published 1829)

19. The Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681, published 1689)

CHAPTER ONE:

CHAPTER TWO: Of the State of Nature

CHAPTER THREE: Of the State of War

CHAPTER FOUR: Of Slavery

CHAPTER FIVE: Of Property

CHAPTER SIX: Of Paternal Power

CHAPTER SEVEN: Of Political or Civil Society

CHAPTER EIGHT: Of the Beginning of Political Societies

CHAPTER NINE: Of the Ends of Political Society and Government

CHAPTER TEN: Of the Forms of a Commonwealth

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Of the Extent of the Legislative Power

CHAPTER TWELVE: Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Of Prerogative

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical Power Considered Together

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Of Conquest

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Of Usurpation

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Of Tyranny

CHAPTER NINETEEN: Of the Dissolution of Government

20. Letter to Edward Clarke (27 January/6 February 1685; published 1927)

21. A Letter Concerning Toleration, trans. William Popple (1685; published 1689)

22. Letter to Edward Clarke (29 January/8 February 1689; published 1927)

23. Preface to Two Treatises of Government (written and published 1689)

24. 'Labour' (1693; from the 1661 Commonplace Book; published 1991)

25. 'Venditio' (1695; from the 1661 Commonplace Book; published 1968)

26. Draft of a Representation Containing a Scheme of Methods for the Employment of the Poor. Proposed by Mr Locke, the 26th October 1697 (published 1789)

Bibliography

Index