Antidote to Marx
Colin Kidd: Oh, I know Locke!, 4 January 2024
America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life
by Claire RydellArcenas.
Chicago, 265 pp., $25, October,978 0 226 82933 3 Show More
by Claire RydellArcenas.
Chicago, 265 pp., $25, October,
“... on Locke finds a loud echo in prevailing popular myths about America’s origins. According to Claire Arcenas, most educated Americans have some sense that Locke is the nation’s founding philosopher-grandfather: ‘Oh, I know Locke! I think we read his Second Treatise in school. He’s the small government, life, liberty, property ... ”
