John Locke: Summarized Classics: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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The present volume covers the central axes of this discipline.
Among them, the reader will find an analysis of Treatise On Civil Government (1690), among others, and  a  glossary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Sep 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201690984

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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John Locke: Summarized Classics

SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

JOHN LOCKE: SUMMARIZED CLASSICS

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ISBN: 9789871719167

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To my children Elías, Selva, Greta, Ciro and Yaco.

To my life's daughter Emma.

To my wife Cecilia.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

John Locke: Summarized Classics

WHO IS LOCKE

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF LOCKE'S WORK

DIFFERENCES WITH HOBBES

The passage from the state of nature to civil society

ESSAY ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT (1690) | CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4  SLAVERY

CHAPTER 5  OWNERSHIP

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7  POLITICAL OR CIVIL SOCIETY

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9  POLITICAL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 10 | LOCKE: FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13  SUBORDINATION OF THE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 14  PREROGATIVE

CHAPTER 19  DISSOLUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT

GLOSSARY

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About the Author

About the Publisher

WHO IS LOCKE

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF LOCKE'S WORK

DIFFERENCES WITH HOBBES

ESSAY ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT (1690)

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2  OF THE NATURAL STATE

CHAPTER 3  STATE OF WAR

CHAPTER 4  SLAVERY

CHAPTER 5  OWNERSHIP

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7  OF THE POLITICAL OR CIVIL SOCIETY

CHAPTER 8  THE BEGINNING OF POLITICAL SOCIETIES

CHAPTER 9  THE PURPOSES OF POLITICAL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 10  FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

LOCKE: FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 11  SCOPE OF LEGISLATIVE POWER

CHAPTER 12  LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND FEDERATIVE POWERS OF THE STATE

CHAPTER 13  SUBORDINATION OF THE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 14  OF THE PREROGATIVE

CHAPTER 19  DISSOLUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT

GLOSSARY

WHO IS LOCKE

Locke, John (1632-1704 ): English empiricist philosopher and physician, supporter of the contractualist theory. Philosophically, he was the first theorist who argued that knowledge is not infinite but has a limit to its development. Locke rejected any vision that assumes that the human being comes into the world with certain innate knowledge and thought of the human being as a blank sheet of paper (tabla rasa) on which certain impressions or sensations are present and enriched by more complex associations (reflections). On the economic level, he adhered to mercantilism. Politically, Locke is the theoretician of liberalism, and his theory is linked to theGlorious Revolution of 1688, anti-monarchical and anti-religious. He started from a hypothetical rational state of nature - for Hobbes it was irrational - where there was no struggle of all against all but mutual assistance. Men had there innate natural and inviolable rights, in particular private property, a right arising from man's work in transforming nature. With the contract, man retains his rights (along with property, life and liberty) and can invoke them before the ruler, who can be revoked by the people. The individual is more important than the state, which is only a guarantor of the individual's rights, enabling individuals to rebel against unjust government or laws. His work represented the interests of the bourgeoisie, who required guarantees for their property and freedom of production and trade. His political model limited democracy to the participation of property owners. Among his main works we find: Essay on Human Understanding ( 1689) and Essay on Civil Government (1690).

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF LOCKE'S WORK

John Locke's life took place in the midst of the broadest transformations of English society in the 17th century. Religious conflicts originated in intolerance, the struggle between Parliament and the King, the beginning of bourgeois expansion, all this generated a favorable space for social transformations.

All these conflicts converged in the GLORIOUS REVOLUTION of 1688, which together with the Dutch revolution of 1651 was the FIRST BURGOTIAN REVOLUTION. Once it was over, the ENGLISH CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY was established forever and CIVIL LIBERTIES and RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE were established.

Locke was born in 1632, his family was linked to the parliamentary side and he himself had close relations with members of the Liberal Party (Whig), especially with Lord Ashley. When the latter had to go into exile in Holland, Locke accompanied him and in the atmosphere of civil and religious tolerance typical of that country he wrote the most important of his intellectual work: the Essay on Human Understanding and the Two Treatises on Civil Government.

Another high point of his work was his 1689 Letter on Toleration. Locke advocates not only religious toleration, but also the separation of the political and religious spheres.