PARADOX OF FREEDOM AND SLAVERY IN LOCKE’S LIBERALISM

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Associate Professor; Faculty of Islamic Studies and Politics, Imam Sadiq University

Abstract

Showing the fabric of Locke’s Liberalism in Two Treatises of Government, this
paper focuses on three philosophical, historical and philosophical - historical
approaches in Lockean political studies, to investigate and justify the contradictions
in Lockean scholarship . In other words, the present article investigates the historical
contexts of Locke’s political theorization; examining how and what extent, his fairly
long in the administration of British colonization in “New World” and the internal
civil, political strife and religious disputes have influenced or possibly determined
the various components of his political theory. This paper is also to answer the
question, how religious and domestic disputes, and British colonial lands and the
plantations, influenced Locke’s Janusian face and his liberalism.

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