This week I have been reading Uday Singh Mehta’s (1999) Liberalism and empire: A study in nineteenth-century British liberal thought (University of Chicago Press).
Restating my view that Locke is best understood as an American political philosopher, the source of a specifically American version of liberalism that is the direct ancestor of far-right paleolibertarianism, one of the main streams of Trumpism.
He had no real relevance English political philosophy once the defeat of the Stuarts, and the break with the strict hereditary principle. resolved his debate with Filmer.
Restating my view that Locke is best understood as an American political philosopher, the source of a specifically American version of liberalism that is the direct ancestor of far-right paleolibertarianism, one of the main streams of Trumpism.
He had no real relevance English political philosophy once the defeat of the Stuarts, and the break with the strict hereditary principle. resolved his debate with Filmer.