![]() ![]() Tension between authoritarian and liberal views can be found already in this work. ![]() Locke, growing up in such an atmosphere and influenced by earlier writers such as Thomas Hobbes, feared liberty could lead to civil disturbance. These conflicts arose around religious tensions and questions of the King's right to rule. ![]() ![]() Historical background īetween 16 England suffered several armed conflicts known as the English Civil War. In this article Locke elaborates on the concepts of law and authority upon which the first article is based. The second article, in Latin, is entitled An Magistratus Civilis possit res adiaphoras in divini cultus rites asciscere, easque populo imponere? Afirmatur. The article is largely an attempt to refute Edward Bagshaw’s The Great Question Concerning Things Indifferent in Religious Worship, published a year earlier and advocating religious toleration. The first article is in English, entitled Question: whether the Civil Magistrate may lawfully impose and determine the use of indifferent things in Religious Worship, to which Locke replies affirmatively. The two works, however, have very different positions. It bears a similar name to a later, more famous, political philosophy work by Locke, namely Two Treatises of Government. Two Tracts on Government is a work of political philosophy written in 1660 by John Locke but remained unpublished until 1961. ![]()
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