John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the Essays on the Law of Nature to the Second Treatise of Government

Download or read book John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the Essays on the Law of Nature to the Second Treatise of Government written by Franziska Quabeck and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Locke's account of natural law, which forms the very basis of his political philosophy, has troubled many critics over time. The two works that shed light on Locke's theory are the early Essays on the Law of Nature and the Second Treatise of Government, published over 20 years later. Many critics have assumed that the early work presents a voluntarist approach to natural law and the second a rationalist approach, but the present analysis in this book shows that Locke's theory is consistent. Both works present a concept of the law of nature that must be placed between voluntarism and rationalism. (Series: Polyptoton. Munster Collection, Academic Writings / Polyptoton. Munsteraner Sammlung Akademischer Schriften - Vol. 3)