ISBN: 9783000555626 (3 resultados)

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Hardcover. 8vo. pp: viii, 384. First edition. Original publisher's black and white illustrated boards with black lettering at spine. Richly illustrated with figures in black and white. ISBN: 9783000555626 Slight bump to tail of spine. Otherwise tight and clean. Near fine.

Hardback. Condición: Very good. 16 x 22cm 384pp very good hardback. The essays presented deal with Locke as a source of ideas for Archibald Alison, John Constable, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, William Hogarth, Immanuel Kant, Samuel Richardson and many others, whose works are illustrated within the text in black and white. John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". His important works include A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), Two Treatises of Government (1689/90), both published anonymously, and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689/90). His writing on toleration contends that religion is a matter for the individual and that the churches are voluntary associations, ruling out religious coercion and uniformity; these lead to the idea of separation of church and state. His Two Treatises on Government argues for government based on the consent of the governed and the right to revolt against tyrannous government which has lost consent. The Two Treatises are believed to have influenced the language that Thomas Jefferson chose in his drafting the July 1776 Declaration of Independence during the War of American Independence.…