Table of Contents -- Series Introduction Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements -- -- Part I: Intellectual Biography -- -- Chapter 1. The Historical and Ideological Context of Locke's Political Philosophy -- 1. The Aims of This Work -- 2. A Century of Ideological and Political Conflict -- 3.The Political Authoritarianism of Robert Filmer -- 4.The Political Authoritarianism of Thomas Hobbes -- -- Part II: Critical Exposition -- -- Chapter 2. Natural Freedom, Natural Law, and Natural Rights -- 1. Perfect Freedom -- 2. The Inborn Constitution Program versus Divine Voluntarism -- 3. The Rational Pursuit of Happiness, Moral Equality, and the Reciprocity Argument -- 4. The Workmanship of God, the False Presumption, and the Like Reason Arguments -- 5. Reason, Motivation, and Compliance with the Law of Nature -- -- Chapter 3. More State of Nature Rights -- 1. The Right to Act as Executor of the Law of Nature -- 2. The Earth as Common to all Mankind -- 3. Rights over Permissibly Appropriated Objects -- 4. The Provisos and their Satisfaction in the Pre-Monetary Phase -- 5. Money and the Satisfaction of the Provisos in the Commercial Phase -- 6 The Enough and As Good Proviso and the Poor Law -- -- Chapter 4. From the State of Nature to the State -- 1. The Inconveniences of the State of Nature and the Resigning Up of Rights -- 2. Majoritarianism — Radically Constrained -- 3. The Doctrine of Consent -- -- Chapter 5. Conquest, Resistance, and Dissolution -- 1. Conquest and Usurpation -- 2. Tyranny and Dissolution -- 3. Political Society as the Agent of Resistance -- 4. Inescapable Private Judgment -- -- Chapter 6. Locke on Toleration -- 1. The Lockean State and Religious Liberty -- 2. Further Considerations against the Magistrate's Authority in Religious Matters -- 3. Locke versus Proast -- -- Part III: Reception and Contemporary Relevance -- Chapter 7. The Reception and Philosophical Legacy of Locke's Political Philosophy -- 1. The Reception of Locke's Political Thought -- 2. Individualism and Rights -- 3. The Role and Character of Rights -- 4. Property Rights and Prosperity -- 5. Consent and State Legitimacy -- Bibliography Index