Freedom and the Human Person

摘要

Thomas Aquinas on Created Freedom, can be usefully juxtaposed with Rist's on this point, but focuses more technically on the scholarly debate regarding the concept of will in Aquinas, for whom on Shanley's interpretation the human will is related to the possibility of evil only insofar as it is imperfect. In their interesting treatment of Locke's selective (and sometimes mischievous) use of the Christian scriptures in his polemics against Robert Filmer, Michael Zuckert et al. show that the real ground of Locke's political philosophy is always his own rational account of human freedom, never divine revelation per se. [...] while Locke is easily able to undermine the scriptural basis for Filmer's "donation doctrine" (according to which political authority derives via patriarchal conveyance from Adam), contrary to what Locke would have his reader believe, his own theory is no more scripturaily based than Filmer's.