God, Locke, and Equality
God, Locke, and Equality
This is a concise and profound book from one of the world's leading political and legal philosophers about a major theme, equality, and the proposition that humans are all one another's equals. Jeremy Waldron explores the implications of this fundamental tenet for law, politics, society and economy in the company of John Locke, whose work Waldron regards 'as well-worked-out a theory of basic equality as we have in the canon of political philosophy'. Throughout the text, which is based on the Carlyle Lectures given in Oxford in 1999, Jeremy Waldron discusses contemporary approaches to equality and rival interpretations of Locke, and this dual agenda gives the whole an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement, of interest to philosophers, political theorists, lawyers and theologians around the world.
- Jeremy Waldron has become one of the world's leading political philosophers, with a large audience in departments of philosophy, law and politics
- Concise, lecture-based treatment of a central issue in the history of ideas - Locke, equality and Christian theology - and its importance for contemporary views of equality
- Text is accessible, engaging and immediate - eminently adoptable!
Reviews & endorsements
"Extremely well-written and detailed, Waldron's God, Locke and Equality provides a nuanced treatment that deftly handles the complexity of Locke's corpus and yet manages to provide a non-anachronistic and largely coherent version of Locke's treatment of basic equality."
-Philosophy in Review
"This is a fascinating book[...]God, Locke, and Equality is a challenging and fascinating read."
-First Things
"Mr. Waldron's Locke reverberates far beyond the boundaries of this book. Readers of the Scriblerian can learn from Mr. Waldron to think of Locke's trinity of religion, politics, and philosophy as central to his legacy and the compound of religion and politics as foundational to his philosophy."
-Richard E. Brantley, University of Florida, The Scriblerian
Product details
December 2002Hardback
9780521810012
276 pages
236 × 160 × 26 mm
0.573kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Citations and abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Adam and Eve
- 3. Species and the shape of equality
- 4. 'The democratic intellect'
- 5. Kings, fathers, voters, subjects and crooks
- 6. 'Disproportionate and unequal possession'
- 7. 'By our Saviour's interpretation'
- 8. Tolerating atheists?
- Bibliography
- Index.
