RT Article
T1 Locke’s Political Society: Some Problems of Terminology in Two Treatises of Government
JF Journal of moral philosophy
VO 11
IS 2
SP 209
OP 231
A1 Davis, Michael
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1817473697
AB This paper not only describes a confusing network of terms (including “political society”, “commonwealth”, and “community”), thus defining a problem of interpretation, but also partially solves the problem. One result is that Locke turns out to differ in at least one important way from those theorists of social contract supposedly belonging to the same tradition, especially Hobbes, Rousseau, and Rawls. The Two Treatises lacks any social contract, that is, a contract constituting society in the inclusive sense usually given “society” in discussions of “social contract”. Locke’s concept of “political society” deserves a closer look, since it has largely been overlooked until now.
K1 supreme power
K1 Subject
K1 sovereign
K1 Society
K1 Republic
K1 the public
K1 Polity
K1 political society
K1 politic society
K1 the people
K1 magistrate
K1 Government
K1 Community
K1 commonwealth
K1 Civil Society
K1 Democracy
K1 body politic
DO 10.1163/17455243-4681005