Authored by John Locke

John Locke was a physician, scientist, philosopher and political theorist of the late 17th century. He made major contributions to the blossoming theme of empiricism in science and, in the Two Treatises, made equally important contributions to politics and government and what we now call "liberalism".

First Treatise

Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown

Second Treatise

An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government