Part I: 1. Introduction : John Locke in history : the problems
2. The developing mind
3. The Essays on the law of nature
4. The Essay on toleration
Part II: 5. The Two treatises and exclusion
6. Sir Robert Filmer
7. Locke and Hobbes
Part III: 8. The premises of the argument
9. The state of nature
10. The creation of the legitimate polity
11. Prerogative
12. Public good and reason of state
13. The conditions for legitimate resistance
14. The law of nature
Part IV: 15. The coherence of a mind 1
16. The coherence of a mind 2
17. The coherence of a mind 3
Part V. 18. The calling : tradition and change
19. Conclusion.