Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cunningham, Frank, 1940-

Description

1. xvii, 310 p.; 21 cm.

Series statement

1. Wynford Project

Uniform title

1. Wynford Project.

Subject

1. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
2. Locke, John, 1632-1704
3. Harrington, James, 1611-1677
4. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
5. Locke, John, 1632-1704
6. Liberalisme
7. Individualisme
8. Individualism
9. Levellers
10. Niveleurs (Mouvement politique)

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962.

Bibliography (note)

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

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