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Lockeans, Progressives, and Liberationists

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  1. Transcript of “Glenn Beck,” May 26, 2010, accessed at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593622,00.html.

  2. See especially Charles R Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism (New York: HarperCollins, 2012)

  3. William Voegeli, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State (New York: Encounter Books, 2010).

  4. Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (New York: Random House, 2012), chapter 9.

  5. Murray, Coming Apart, chapter 8.

  6. A quick check reveals that along with western European nations, southeast Asian and post-Soviet bloc nations, hardly hotbeds of individualism, predominate in a recent listing, drawn from data compiled by the CIA, of the twenty nations with the world’s lowest fertility rates (http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10009394.html, accessed 4/8/2013).

  7. Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 249-51; Thomas L. Pangle, The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 213; Allan Bloom, Giants and Dwarfs (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 232.

  8. Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, sections 81, 31; First Treatise of Government, section 1; Second Treatise of Government, sections 181, also 10, 11, 16, 93, 172.

  9. Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 3.6.26–27, 3.11.16, also 1.3.19; Second Treatise, sections 55–57.

  10. Locke, Second Treatise, sections 82, 78.

  11. See, e.g., Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and Family (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), chapters 2, 6.

  12. For my own extended effort to address this question, see Our Only Star and Compass: Locke and the Struggle for Political Rationality (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

  13. Bacon, New Atlantis, edited by Jerry Weinberger (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1980), 71.

  14. Locke, “Introduction” to Of the Conduct of the Understanding, in Some Thoughts concerning Education and Of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W Grant and Nathan Tarcov (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996), 167.

  15. Locke, First Treatise section 47; Essay 4.12.10, 4.14.2, 3.11.24; Second Treatise section 143; First Treatise sections 56–58.

  16. Bacon, New Organon Book 1, aphorism III.

  17. Horace, Epistles I.10.

  18. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2.21.51, 55.

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Myers, P.C. Lockeans, Progressives, and Liberationists. Soc 50, 458–463 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-013-9689-2

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