Between Divine and Human Sovereignty
The State of Nature and the Basis of Locke's Political Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter C Myers (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 629-649 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234963 |
| OpenAlex | W2333952459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
John Locke's political philosophy teaches us that we must reconcile ourselves to a human condition between divine and human sovereignty involving neither complete subjection to nor complete dominion over the natural order. This article traces that teaching to Locke's account of the state of nature and argues that it forms the basis of a genuinely rationalist liberal political philosophy attentive to both the extent and the limits of human choice and self-creation
Dominion · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Order (exchange · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · State (computer science · State of nature · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |