Toleration And Understanding In Locke

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198791706

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Toleration and Understanding in Locke by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

La 4e de couverture indique : "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. 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. Attention is paid to demonstrating the range of Locke's arguments for toleration and to defending them, where possible, against recent criticisms. The book also includes discussions of Locke's 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. debates about religious toleration."

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Toleration
ISBN : PRNC:32101005061328

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A Letter Concerning Toleration. By John Locke, Esq by John Locke Pdf

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192509437

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Toleration and Understanding in Locke by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

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.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547019664

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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke Pdf

A Letter Concerning Toleration is a letter by John Locke. The author presents a philosophy for toleration amongst Christian denominations, and argues that only churches that teach tolerance have a place in society.

Author : Mario Montuori
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004463950

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John Locke: On Toleration and the Unity of God by Mario Montuori Pdf

Latin and English texts revised and edited with variants and an introduction by Mario Montuori.

Author : Flavio Fontenelle Loque
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030903633

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John Locke and the Grounds for Toleration by Flavio Fontenelle Loque Pdf

This book offers a detailed analysis of John Locke’s case for toleration and proposes an interpretation that shows the links between his political reasoning and his reflection on the ethics of belief. Locke is concerned with toleration not only when he discusses the ends of the Commonwealth, but also when he assesses the duties of private persons regarding the search for truth. The purpose of this book is to shed light on both of these branches, which have not been sufficiently explored in other studies on Locke. With particular attention to the notions of charity, obstinacy, fallibility, reciprocity and distinction between belief and knowledge, the author proposes a reading of the Epistola de Tolerantia, an extensive discussion of the controversy between Locke and Jonas Proast, as well as an examination of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, in order to establish the meaning and interconnection of Locke’s arguments in favour of toleration.

Author : John Locke,James H. Tully
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603844567

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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke,James H. Tully Pdf

John Locke's subtle and influential defense of religious toleration as argued in his seminal Letter Concerning Toleration (1685) appears in this edition as introduced by one of our most distinguished political theorists and historians of political thought.

Author : John Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521651141

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John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture by John Marshall Pdf

Major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern Enlightenment Europe.

Author : Mario Montuori,John Locke
Publisher : Brill
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106007119487

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Epistola de Tolerantia by Mario Montuori,John Locke Pdf

Latin and English texts revised and edited with variants and an introduction by Mario Montuori.

Author : Adam Wolfson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739147245

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Persecution or Toleration by Adam Wolfson Pdf

This book traces, in detail, the complex contours of the Locke-Proast debate over the question of toleration-revealing the radical case John Locke made on behalf of toleration. Arguing against the pro-persecution arguments of Jonas Proast, Locke developed a broadly humanistic case for toleration rooted in liberal notions of consent, human dependency, and skepticism. Locke's theory would extend to a wide range of religious believers and even atheists. However, at the same time, according to Locke, toleration requires an overcoming of the religious worldview, rather than an emergence out of theological assumptions, as many scholars argue. Ultimately, the success of toleration involves more than institutional reforms such as the separation of church and state or a mere modus vivendi among fighting faiths; it entails a shift in core religious beliefs and identities and a fundamental change in religious believers themselves. By undertaking a careful reading of the quarrel between Locke and Proast, this book furthers our understanding of the political alternatives of persecution, toleration, and pluralism.

Author : J. R. Milton,Philip Milton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191614613

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John Locke: An Essay concerning Toleration by J. R. Milton,Philip Milton Pdf

J. R. and Philip Milton present the first critical edition of John Locke's Essay concerning Toleration and a number of other writings on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683. Although Locke never published any of these works himself they are of very great interest for students of his intellectual development because they are markedly different from the early works he wrote while at Oxford and show him working out ideas that were to appear in his mature political writings, the Two Treatises of Government and the Epistola de Tolerantia. The Essay concerning Toleration was written in 1667, shortly after Locke had taken up residence in the household of his patron Lord Ashley, subsequently Earl of Shaftesbury. It has been in print since the nineteenth century, but this volume contains the first critical edition based on all the extant manuscripts; it also contains a detailed account of Locke's arguments and of the contemporary debates on comprehension and toleration. Also included are a number of shorter writings on church and state, including a short set of queries on Scottish church government (1668), Locke's notes on Samuel Parker (1669), and 'Excommunication' (1674). The other two main works contained in this volume are rather different in character . One is a short tract on jury selection which was written at the time of Shaftesbury's imprisonment in 1681. The other is 'A Letter from a Person of Quality', a political pamphlet written by or for Shaftesbury in 1675 as part of his campaign against the Earl of Danby. This was published anonymously and is of disputed authorship; it was first attributed to Locke in 1720 and since then has occupied an uncertain position in the Locke canon. This volume contains the first critical edition based on contemporary printed editions and manuscripts and it includes a detailed account of the Letter's composition, authorship, and subsequent history. This volume will be an invaluable resource for all historians of early modern philosophy, of legal, political, and religious thought, and of 17th century Britain.

Author : Richard Vernon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0773510222

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Career of Toleration by Richard Vernon Pdf

John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration is one of the canonical English-language texts in the history of the idea of toleration. Its publication in 1689 sparked a heated debate with Anglican cleric Jonas Proast, and in recent years the Locke-Proast cont

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770484047

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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke Pdf

Locke argued that religious belief ought to be compatible with reason, that no king, prince or magistrate rules legitimately without the consent of the people, and that government has no right to impose religious beliefs or styles of worship on the public. Locke’s defense of religious tolerance and freedom of thought was revolutionary in its time. Even today, his letter poses a challenge to religious intolerance, whether state-sponsored or originating from religious dogmatists. Based on both Locke’s original Latin and the seventeenth-century English translation of William Popple, this edition offers a reader-friendly version that remains loyal to the original text. In addition to a forty-page introduction that situates the Letter in its historical and philosophical contexts, this edition includes excerpts from writings on religious toleration by William Penn, Baruch Spinoza, Pierre Bayle, and Samuel von Pufendorf, as well as generous selections from the famous Locke-Proast debates on religious toleration.

Author : John Locke Locke,William Popple
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1466362839

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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke Locke,William Popple Pdf

John Locke's "A Letter Concerning Toleration" is key for many reasons, not least of which is its startling relevance to contemporary society. Locke sees tolerance as fundamentally a "live and let live" situation, a state which must be achieved to avoid the endless relativity of a regime fueled by religion; as each man is orthodox to himself and heretical to others, he argues, religious tolerance *must* be a basic societal tenet for the state to function. Excellently argued and written, Locke's "A Letter Concerning Toleration" is one of the most under-appreciated texts in the liberal tradition of political philosophy. When read in conjunction with his Second Treatise, it clarifies the relationship Locke envisions between individuals and the Lockean state. The subject of the Letter is specifically religious toleration, but his general argument for toleration is also applicable to issues of more modern concern.

Author : John William Tate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317236313

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Liberty, Toleration and Equality by John William Tate Pdf

The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition. Liberty, Toleration and Equality examines the development of Locke’s ideal of toleration, from its beginnings, to the culmination of this development in Locke’s fifteen year debate with his great antagonist, the Anglican clergyman, Jonas Proast. Locke, like Proast, was a sincere Christian, but unlike Proast, Locke was able to develop, over time, a perspective on toleration which allowed him to concede liberty to competing views which he, personally, perceived to be "false and absurd". In this respect, Locke sought to affirm what has since become the basic liberal principle that liberty and toleration are most significant when they are accorded to views to which we ourselves are profoundly at odds. John William Tate seeks to show how Locke was able to develop this position on toleration over a long intellectual career. Tate also challenges some of the most prominent contemporary perspectives on Locke, within the academic literature, showing how these fall short of perceiving what is essential to Locke’s position.