TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macpherson,C.B.
AU  - Cunningham,Frank
TI  - The political theory of possessive individualism : : Hobbes to Lock e / 
T2  -  The Wynford Project
SN  - 9780195444018 (pbk.)
U1  - 320.512   22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Don Mills, Ont. : 
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Hobbes, Thomas, 
KW  - Locke, John, 
KW  - Harrington, James, 
KW  - Individualism
N1  -  Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962;  Includes bibliographical references: p. [302]-303 and index;  Introduction.  The roots of liberal-democratic theory -- Problems of interpretation -- Hobbe : the political obligation of the market.  Phi losophy and political theory -- Human nature and the state of nature -- Models of society -- Political obligation -- Penetration and limits of Hobbe's political theory -- The Levellers : franchise and freedom.  Th e problem of franchise -- Types of franchise -- The record -- Theoretic al implications -- Harrington : the opportunity state.  Unexamined ambi guities -- The balance and the gentry -- The bourgeois society -- The e qual commonwealth and the equal agrarian -- The self-cancelling balance principle -- Harrington's stature --Locke : the political theory of ap propriation.  Interpretations -- The theory of property right -- Class differentials in natural rights and rationality -- The ambiguous state of nature -- The ambiguous civil society -- Unsettled problems reconsid ered -- Possessive individualism and liberal democracy.  The seventeent h-century foundations -- The twentieth-century dilemma -- Appendix : So cial classes and franchise classes in England, circa 1648
ER  -