Title of material
Second Treatise of Government
Course
AMH2010; EUH2000; WOH2012
Date (Original)
1689
Location
Kingdom of Great Britain
Keywords
theory of civil society
Description
Outlines a theory of civil society. Locke begins by describing the state of nature, a picture much more stable than Thomas Hobbes' state of "war of every man against every man," and argues that all men are created equal in the state of nature by God
STARS Citation
Locke, John, "Second Treatise of Government" (1689). All OER History Primary Sources. 44.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/oerhistory-all/44
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