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Toleration and Understanding in Locke (Hardcover)
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Toleration and Understanding in Locke (Hardcover)
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Despite recent advances in Locke scholarship, philosophers and
political theorists have paid little attention to the relations
among his three greatest works: An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de
Tolerantia. As a result our picture of Locke's thought is a
curiously fragmented one. Toleration and Understanding in Locke
argues that these works are unified by a concern to promote the
cause of religious toleration. Making extensive use of Locke's
neglected replies to Proast, Nicholas Jolley shows how Locke draws
on his epistemological principles to criticize religious
persecution - for Locke, since revelation is an object of belief,
not knowledge, coercion by the state in religious matters is not
morally justified. In this volume Jolley also seeks to show how the
Two Treatises of Government and the letters for toleration adopt
the same contractualist approach to political theory; Locke argues
for toleration from the function of the state where this is
determined by the decisions of rational contracting parties.
Throughout, attention is paid to demonstrating the range of Locke's
arguments for toleration and to defending them, where possible,
against recent criticisms. The book includes an account of the
development of Locke's views about religious toleration from the
beginning to the end of his career; it also includes discussions of
his individualism about knowledge and belief, his critique of
religious enthusiasm, his commitment to the minimal creed, and his
teachings about natural law. Locke emerges as a rather systematic
thinker whose arguments are highly relevant to modern debates about
religious toleration.
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