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The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism Hobbes to Locke
Macpherson, C.B. Publisher: Oxford University Press Year Published: 1970 ISBN: 19-881084-9 Resource Type: Book
A fundamental reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke which emphasizes the role of liberal political theory in justifying the appropriation of property to private ownership.
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction The Roots of Liberal-Democratic Theory Problems of Interpretation
II. Hobbes: The Political Obligation of The Market Philosophy and Political Theory Human Nature and the State of Nature Abstraction from Society The State of Nature From Physiological to Social Motion Models of Society: The Use of Models Customary or Status Society Simple Market Society Possessive Market Society Hobbes and the Possessive Model The Inadequacy of the State of Nature Political Obligation From Motivation to Obligation Moral or Prudental Obligation? The Postulate of Equality Morality, Science, and the Market The Presumption of Obligation from Fact Penetration and Limits of Hobbes's Political Theory Historical Prerequisites of the Deduction The Self-perpetuating Sovereign Congruence of Sovereignty and Market Society Some Objections Reconsidered
III. The Levellers: Franchise and Freedom The Problem of the Franchise Types of Franchise The Record The Chronology Putney and After Before Putney Summing-up Theoretical Implications The Property in One's Person The Deduction of Rights and the Grounds for Exclusion Levellers' and Independents' Individualism Limits and Direction of the Levellers' Individualism
IV. Harrington: The Opportunity State Unexamined Ambiguities The Balance and the Gentry The Bourgeois Society The Equal Commonwealth and the Equal Agrarian The Self-Cancelling Balance Principle Harrington's Stature
V. Locke: The Political Theory of Appropriation Interpretations The Theory of Property Right Locke's Purpose The Initial Limited Right The Limitations Transcended The spoilage limitation The sufficiency limitation The supposed labour limitation Locke's Achievement Class Differentials in Natural Rights and Rationality Locke's Assumption of the Differentials in Seventeenth- Century England Differential Rights and Rationality Generalized Differential rights Differential rationality The Ambiguous State of Nature The Ambiguous Civil Society Unsettled Problems Reconsidered The Joint-stock Theory Majority Rule v. Property Right The Equation of Individual and Majority Consent Individualism v. Collectivism Locke's Constitutionalism
VI. Possessive Individualism and Liberal Democracy The Seventeenth-Century Foundations The Twentieth-Century Dilemma
Appendix Social Classes and Franchise Classes in England, circa 1648
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