by John Locke · BIBLIOTECA NUEVA,S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470306259
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«Segundo tratado sobre el gobierno» is John Locke's political philosophy essay, published by Biblioteca Nueva in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
Starting from the natural rights of the individual and social relations agreed between people who own themselves, Locke criticizes absolutism and defends a limited civil government whose legitimacy is based on consent. He examines the origin of property, the rule of the majority and the possibility of questioning the power in place.
Edition by Pablo López Álvarez in the Clásicos del Pensamiento collection from Biblioteca Nueva; published in 1999.
For readers interested in political philosophy and the foundations of modern liberalism.
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.
