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Book Review: Locke, Science, and Politics1 9 9and merely economic understanding of individual self-interest, but opens upto a broader field of sociable human fulfillment” (242).Strauss’s response to Forde’s criticisms can be at least partly imagined,inasmuch as Strauss himself is fully aware of at least some key points Fordeadvances, as seen in the section on Locke in Natural Right and History andthe chapter on Locke in What Is Political Philosophy? 3 Scholars influencedby Strauss who have published on Locke—Michael Zuckert, Thomas L.Pangle, Peter Myers, Thomas G. West, and others—may well proffer theirown responses. What might also prove instructive would be a study of Lockemodeled on Catherine Zuckert’s study of the Platonic dialogues, 4 consistingof exegeses of all the key texts showing the relations among them. Such adifficult and massive undertaking would be the work of many years. In themeantime, the serious study of Locke continues to accelerate, especially inthe United States and England, where his political as well as his philosophicimportance endures.3Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 202–51;“Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Law,” in What Is Political Philosophy? and Other Studies (Westport, CT:Greenwood, 1973), 197–220.4Catherine Zuckert, Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues (Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 2009).