The politics and philosophy of mixture: John Locke recomposed.(Two Treatises of Government )

From: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Schmidgen, Wolfram | Copyright information

It has always been difficult to get the political and the philosophical Locke to agree. When Peter Laslett published his groundbreaking edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government in 1960, he observed how fluently Locke could move between his major political and philosophical works. His notebooks from the early 1680s "reveal Locke at work on Two Treatises and the Essay on the Understanding at the same time." (1) As enticing as this seemed, Laslett felt that the differences betwe...

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