For Freedom: Locke's Educational Thought

Author: Ta
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: The discussion on the role of education and family in Locke's liberal thought is often overlooked, and this book provides a key analysis of it. Ta compares Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education with Plato's The Republic and Rousseau's Emile, thereby demonstrating that this neglected educational treatise actually contains a comprehensive view of morality and social life. Locke believed that the family was not an enemy of individual freedom and equality, but a positive facilitator. For contemporary readers, Ta's brilliant reassessment of Locke's thought reveals the previously unrecognized scope and consistency within it.