Two Treatises of Government

Recorded talks in this archive that name this book, each linked to the moment it comes up:

• The English Civil War and the First Libertarian Movement

  Jeff Riggenbach · The Libertarian Tradition

  Rothbard quotes the editor of one edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government as saying, justly, in Rothbard's opinion, that without Shaftesbury, Locke would not have been Locke at all.

  Hear it at 14:23

• 11. Mercantilism and Freedom in England from the Civil War to 1750

  Murray N. Rothbard · Economic Thought Before Adam Smith

  The editor of the definitive edition of Locke's Two Treatises of Government justly writes that without Shaftesbury, Locke would not have been Locke at all.

  Hear it at 25:57

• The Ethics of Secession

  Scott Boykin · Secession, State, and Economy

  The first is found in the writings of John Locke, the English political philosopher who In his book, Two Treatises of Government, published in 1690, argued that legitimate political authority is founded on the consent of the governor.

  Hear it at 0:48

• Ideology and Theories of History

  Murray N. Rothbard · The History of Economic Thought: From Marx to Hayek

  This came out called Revolutionary Politics and the Two Treatises of Government.

  Hear it at 25:46