The political theory of possessive individualism

Hobbes to Locke

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The political theory of possessive individualism

Hobbes to Locke

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English
Pages
310

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Table of Contents

Introduction. The roots of liberal-democratic theory
Problems of interpretation
Hobbe : the political obligation of the market. Philosophy and political theory
Human nature and the state of nature
Models of society
Political obligation
Penetration and limits of Hobbe's political theory
The Levellers : franchise and freedom. The problem of franchise
Types of franchise
The record
Theoretical implications
Harrington : the opportunity state. Unexamined ambiguities
The balance and the gentry
The bourgeois society
The equal commonwealth and the equal agrarian
The self-cancelling balance principle
Harrington's stature
Locke : the political theory of appropriation. Interpretations
The theory of property right
Class differentials in natural rights and rationality
The ambiguous state of nature
The ambiguous civil society
Unsettled problems reconsidered
Possessive individualism and liberal democracy. The seventeenth-century foundations
The twentieth-century dilemma
Appendix : Social classes and franchise classes in England, circa 1648.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [302]-303 and index.

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Don Mills, Ont
Series
The Wynford Project, Wynford Project

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.51/2
Library of Congress
JC153 .M2 2011, JC571

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Pagination
xvii, 310 p. ;
Number of pages
310

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Open Library
OL25050689M
ISBN 10
0195444019
ISBN 13
9780195444018
LCCN
2011500531
OCLC/WorldCat
648388121

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