New integral translation of “Two Treatises of Government” (1960), one of the classic of modern political though and is without doubt one of the most influent works within liberal political philosophy. Re-reading the “Due trattati” is not only an historical exercise, but also a way to reflect on some of the key concepts of the political lexicon: freedom, equality, propriety, consent, legitimacy. In the pages of Locke philosophy it is a whole world of social relationship, even before than political, that changes into virtue of fundamental values acknowledgment of our political modernity: freedom and equal capacity of moral judgment of every man.
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