Tag: Education

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Major Works

  • Some Thoughts Concerning Education

    - Recommended edition: Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Edited by Ruth Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996.
    Excerpt: “I myself have been consulted of late by so many, who profess themselves at a loss how to breed their children; and the early corruption of youth is now become so general a complaint; that he cannot be thought wholly impertinent, who brings the… More

Other Works

  • Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman

    - John Locke, "Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman" in The Works of John Locke in Nine Volumes, Vol. 2 (London: Rivington, 1824).
    Excerpt: The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others. The latter of these, if it be not the chief end of study in a gentleman; yet it… More

Commentary

  • John Locke and Education

    - John Yolton, John Locke and Education (New York: Random House, 1971).

  • The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17th Century England

    - Gordon Schochet, The Authoritarian Family and Political Attitudes in 17th Century England (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1988).
    This classic study of the relationship between paternal and political authority identifies patriachalism as a leitmotif of western social and political thought since the time of Plato and Aristotle. Gordon Schochet shows that patriarchal doctrines can be… More

  • The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke’s Political Thought

    - Uday Mehta, The Anxiety of Freedom (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992).
    Summary: Against what he describes as the “all but canonical” reading of Locke as a narrowly political theorist, concerned with erecting institutional fences to prevent naturally free, rational, interested individuals from violating one… More

  • Locke’s Education for Liberty by Nathan Tarcov

    - Tarcov, Nathan. Locke’s Education for Liberty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
    From the publisher: “Locke’s Education for Liberty presents an analysis of the crucial but often underestimated place of education and the family within Lockean liberalism. Nathan Tarcov shows that Locke’s neglected work Some Thoughts… More

  • “The Family in John Locke’s Political Thought”

    - Jacqueline Pfeffer, “The Family in John Locke’s Political Thought,” Polity 33 (2001), 593-618.
    What might attention to Locke’s political thought contribute to contemporary debates about the family? I consider the original Lockean understanding of the role of family in civil society as presented in Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and… More

  • Duty Bound

    - Mark Blitz, Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
    From the publisher: In this timely and enlightening new work, Mark Blitz explores the link between character and politics in liberal democracies, focusing on the importance of responsibility in American public and professional life. He begins by analyzing the… More