Locke : A Very Short Introduction by John Dunn

Author:John Dunn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2003-04-07T22:00:00+00:00

For Filmer (as indeed for the young Locke) men were too stubborn, selfish, and quarrelsome to be left unaided to work out their own practical salvation. God’s providence watched over them and it did so above all by subjecting them permanently to a grid of effective authority. Throughout his intellectual life Locke accepted this assessment of what men are like and of how they can be expected to behave. But with the Two Treatises he extended it confidently to rulers as much as to subjects, and drew from it implications very different from those which had occurred to Filmer. In his first writings there was a wide gulf between the godlike ruler and the multitude ‘whom knowing men have always found and therefore called beasts’ (G 158). But in the Two Treatises this gulf has disappeared and the ruler is seen as being just as likely as his subjects to enter upon ‘force, the way of Beasts’ (T II 181).

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