John Locke: Social contract versus political anthropology

The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 51-72

  Waldron, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (23)

1. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1974, pp. 7-9.
2. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 13.
3. Immanuel Kant, 'On the Common Saying: "This May Be True in Theory, But It Does Not Apply in Practice" ', in Kant's Political Writings, Hans Reiss (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970, p. 78.
4. Jeremy Waldron, 'Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism', Philosophical Quarterly, 1987, vol. 37, pp. 134ff.
5. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Peter Laslett (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Subsequent references in the notes to this work, are by treatise and paragraph number.
6. David Hume, 'Of the Original Contract', in his Essays, Moral, Political and Literary, Eugene F.Miller (ed.), Indianapolis, Ind., Liberty Classics, 1985, p. 471.
7. Locke, Two Treatises, II, 4-86.
8. For other similar lines of argument, see Locke, Two Treatises, II, 23, 93, 131, 135-6, 138-9, 149, 163-4, 168 and 222.
9. Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, p. ix.
10. For the importance of this theme in early modern political thought, see Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979, esp. chs. 7-8.
11. Jeremy Waldron, Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man, London, Methuen, 1987, pp. 11-13.
12. This is recognized by Peter Laslett in the footnote to II, 74 of his edition of the Two Treatises. See also G.Schochet, 'The Family and the Origins of the State in Locke's Political Philosophy', in John Locke: Problems and Perspectives, J.W. Yolton (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1969.
13. John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1969, p. 100.
14. For Filmer's critique, see Patriarcha and Other Political Works of Sir Robert Filmer, P.Laslett (ed.), Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1949.
15. Hume, 'Of the Original Contract', p. 470.
16. R.H.Cox, Locke on War and Peace, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960, pp. 95ff. for a discussion of this example.
17. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, C.B.Macpherson (ed.), Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968, ch. 13, pp. 187-8.
18. Dunn, Political Thought of John Locke, pp. 106-7.
19. Dunn, Political Thought of John Locke, pp. 106-7.
20. David Hume, 'Of the Original Contract,' in Essays Moral, Political and Literary, E.F.Miller (ed.), Indianapolis, Ind., Liberty Classics, 1985, pp. 470-1.
21. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, J.W.Yolton (ed.), London, Dent, 1961, 4. 16, §11, p. 258.
22. Richard Ashcraft, 'Locke's State of Nature: Historical Fact or Moral Fiction?', American Political Science Review, 1968, p. 899. Ashcraft's reference is to Locke's Journal for 6-10 April 1677.
23. Dunn, Political Thought of John Locke, p. 97.