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Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece
In Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece, an important new study
of the foundations of modern political theory, Ross Harrison, the
eminent political philosopher, analyzes the work of Hobbes, Locke,
and their contemporaries. He provides a detailed account of the tur-
bulent historical background that shaped the political, intellectual,
and religious content of political theory as it evolved in seventeenth-
century England.
Harrison explores such questions as the limits of political authority
and the relationship between the legitimacy of government and the
will of the people in a non-technical style that will appeal to profes-
sionals and students in philosophy, politics, theology, and history.
Ross Harrison is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Hobbes, Locke, and
Confusion’s Masterpiece
An Examination of Seventeenth-Century
Political Philosophy
ROSS HARRISON
University of Cambridge
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