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The best commentary on Locke’s thought in general and on the Essayin particu-
lar is Richard I. Aaron,John Locke(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971). Also useful
as a general overview are D.J. O’Connor, John Locke (Harmondsworth,
Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1952); John W. Yolton,Locke and the Way of Ideas
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968); R.S. Woolhouse, Locke (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1983); John Dunn,Locke(New York: Oxford
University Press, 1984)—part of the “Past Masters” series, now reprinted in the
combined volume of John Dunn et al., eds.,The British Empiricists(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1992); Michael Ayers,Locke(Oxford: Routledge,
1994); Nicholas Jolley,Locke: His Philosophical Thought(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999); and Roger Woolhouse,Locke: A Biography(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007). For help with Locke’s Essay, see John W.
Yolton, Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding: A Selective
Commentary on the “Essay”(London: Cambridge University Press, 1970); John
L. Mackie,Problems from Locke(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976); Gary
Fuller et al,John Locke:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in Focus
(London: Routledge, 2000); and E.J. Lowe,Locke(London: Routledge, 2005);
Lex Newman, ed.,The Cambridge Companion to Locke’sEssay Concerning
Human Understanding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); and
William Uzgalis,Locke’sEssay Concerning Human Understanding:A Reader’s
Guide(London: Continuum, 2007). Nicholas Wolterstorff,John Locke and the
Ethics of Belief(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) provides guid-
ance to the last section of the Essay. For guides to Locke’s political thought, see
John Dunn,The Political Thought of John Locke(Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1969); J.W. Gough,John Locke’s Political Philosophy(Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1973); and Greg Forster,John Locke’s Politics of Moral
Consensus(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). John Yolton,
A Locke Dictionary(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993) provides a useful reference
work. For collections of essays on Locke’s thought, see C.B. Martin and
D.M. Armstrong, eds.,Locke and Berkeley: A Collection of Critical Essays
(Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1968); John W. Yolton, ed.,
John Locke: Problems and Perspectives: A Collection of New Essays
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969); Vere Chappell’s books,Essays
on Early Modern Philosophers: John Locke—Theory of Knowledge, John
Locke—Political Philosophy(all Hamden, CT: Garland Press, 1992), and
The Cambridge Companion to Locke(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994); J.R. Milton, ed.,Locke’s Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy
(New York: Ashgate, 1999); and Udo Thiel, ed.,Locke: Epistemology and
Metaphysics(New York: Ashgate, 2001). For an interesting, if unusual, analysis
of Locke’s political thought, see Leo Strauss,Natural Right and History
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952).