Liberalism and Locke's Philosophical Anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10437150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graedon Zorzi (0000-0001-7908-0100, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-205 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670518001183 |
| OpenAlex | W2929779973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
Perhaps in part because of an issue related to chronology of publications, the connections between Locke's liberalism and philosophical anthropology are underappreciated. This essay addresses that issue and re-examines Locke's account of the person, treating it as an interpretive key to Locke's political thought. Locke's person is, contra the standard readings, a relational concept that refers to beings capable of law in terms of their accountability to law; descendants of Adam are equal as persons in that they hold identical rights (or prerogatives) and duties under the divine law. This philosophical anthropology leads to a principle—eschatological accountability delimits legitimate moral and political authority, so authority over a person is necessarily limited by that person's accountability to God—that helps to clarify certain misunderstandings of the status of moral authority within Lockean liberalism and to explain how Locke set the terms of subsequent debates about the limits of political authority
Accountability · Classical liberalism · Epistemology · Liberalism · Political anthropology · Political authority · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Philosophy and Science · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
John Locke's Liberalism
Why Liberalism Failed
Locke
The Political Thought of John Locke
Locke and Leibniz on Substance
God, Locke, and Equality
Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke, Peter Laslett
Moral Science and the Concept of Persons in Locke
The Biblical Politics of John Locke
Voluntarism and Early Modern Science
Locke on Personal Identity
Obligation and Consent-II
Obligation and Consent-I
The Passions and the Interests
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |