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For the socioeconomic perspective on Locke, see Macpherson, C. Despite their divergences on method and philosophical orientation, the two interpretations concur on the decisively modern, liberal, and bourgeois character of Locke's thought. However, the construal of Locke as a distinctively bourgeois thinker finds an earlier articulation in the esoteric-hermeneutic mode of reading pioneered by Leo Strauss in his Natural Right and History, which reconstructs from Locke's writings a modern, robust, and singularly liberal philosophical edifice of natural rights. Macpherson in The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism. 1 This interpretation flows from the sociological-economic perspective on Locke opened up by C.
