In Season 2 - our FOUNDATIONS series - we’ll examine European philosophers from the 17th through the 19th centuries, to see how their views have shaped and defined our own… whether we realize it or not.

Today we begin our exploration of Locke’s philosophy by looking at the politics of his time, from the death of Queen Elizabeth through the Glorious Revolution in England.

Framing Locke’s work in the philosophy of governance as comparable to Descartes’ search for first principles, we begin by seeing how Locke’s notion of “Civil Society” emerges as a mediate point between the State of Nature – in which humankind exists without restriction, and in their natural state of reason and equality – and the State of War, into which humankind plunges when one person tries to take power over another, and the chaos and violence of “might makes right” is the only law.

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***SEASON TWO READINGS AND SOURCES***

On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill

John Locke's 2nd Treatise on Civil Government, by John Locke

Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta

A Treatise of Human Nature [Books 1-3], by David Hume

Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Encyclopedia Logic (Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Series #1), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy of Mind: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Series #3), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hegel's Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Thom Brooks, Editor)

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