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Article: An unfair review? (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Joshua Mitchell's disparaging review of Michael Zuckert's fine book Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy (January) does a serious disservice to readers of FIRST THINGS. Professor Mitchell arbitrarily dismisses the possibility that Zuckert can uncover "a single, unified Lockean political philosophy," on the ground that "most scholars remain unconvinced" by the claim. Similarly, he rejects Zuckert's demonstration of the fundamental opposition between Locke's teaching and the biblical one because "most scholars now believe that Locke was a nominal Christian of some sort." To refute a book like Zuckert's, which sets out in part to challenge a scholarly ...
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