Yechiel J M Leiter

John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

John Locke, whose ideas helped give birth to the United States, predicated his political theory on the Hebrew Bible. Why?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428187
• ISBN-10: 1108428185
• Artikelnr.: 50655946

Autorenporträt

Yechiel J. Michael Leiter is President of the Veresta Group and a Senior Fellow at the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Retrieving the lost honor of the first treatise
2. Locke's unusual natural law
3. Equality and liberty: the role of imago dei vs. domineering phantom
4. Property and charity: the biblical contours of Lockean economics
5. On rebellion: what makes a revolution glorious?
6. The fall and the extent of human depravity.