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| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration. By John Locke, Esq John Locke, 1796 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke, 2012-12-06 Limborch's edition and Popple's translation, as on whether it is true that Popple translated the Epistola into English 'a l'insu de Mr Locke', and consequently whether Locke was right or wrong in saying that the translation was made 'without my privity'. Long research into documents hitherto unpublished, or little known, or badly used, has persuaded me that Locke not only knew that Popple had undertaken to translate the Gouda Latin text, but also that Locke followed Popple's work very closely, and even that the second English edition of 1690 was edited by Locke himself. In these circumstances it does not seem possible to speak of an original text, that in Latin, and an English translation; rather they are two different versions of Locke's thoughts on Toleration. The accusations of unreliability levelled at Popple therefore fall to the ground, and the Latin and English texts acquire equal rights to our trust, since they both deserve the same place among Locke's works. Consequently the expression 'without my privity', which a number of people had seen as revealing an innate weakness in Locke's moral character, reacquires its precise meaning: testifying to Locke's profound modesty and integrity. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A letter concerning toleration [by J. Locke, tr. by W. Popple.]. John Locke, 1689 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Second Treatise of Government John Locke, 1980-06-01 The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted John Locke, 2010-11-01 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. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings John Locke, 2010 This volume brings together the principal writings on religious toleration and freedom of expression by one of the greatest philosophers in the Anglophone tradition. It contains not only Locke's canonical Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), but also his early Essay Concerning Toleration (1667), extracts from the Third Letter for Toleration (1692), and a large body of Locke's briefer essays and memoranda on these themes. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke, 1983 Ever since humankind raised its head toward the heavens in search of universal understanding and spiritual fulfilment, wars, pogroms, persecution, prejudice, and contempt have been the means of resolving the many and varied disagreements that have arisen over matters religious. In his Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke offers a compelling plea for freedom of conscience and religious expression. He outlines the limits of social and political incursion into the realm of personal belief or non-belief, discusses the dangers of mixing church and state, and strikes hard at those who would use the power of the state to fulfil religious or political goals. Rational persuasion is always to be encouraged in the hope that wayward souls may find a moral direction in life, but the use of force in such matters is unwarranted and unacceptable. Locke also addresses the question of denominational infighting and relations among the major religions. Talk of heresy and schism should be set aside in favour of understanding and co-operation to achieve mutually desirable social ends |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke, Hilaire Belloc, 2004-06 For whatsoever some people boast of the antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their outward worship; others, of the reformation of their discipline; all, of the orthodoxy of their faith -- for everyone is orthodox to himself -- these things, and all others of this nature, are much rather marks of men striving for power and empire over one another than of the Church of Christ. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Third Letter for Toleration, to the Author of The Third Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke, 1692 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke, James H. Tully, 1983-07-01 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. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Toleration and Understanding in Locke Nicholas Jolley, 2016 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. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Tolerance Caroline Warman, 2016-01-04 Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus Greg Forster, 2005-02-07 The aim of this book is twofold: to explain the reconciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke, and to explore the relevance of that reconciliation for politics in our own time. Confronted with deep social divisions over ultimate beliefs, Locke sought to unite society in a single liberal community. Reason could identify divine moral laws that would be acceptable to members of all cultural groups, thereby justifying the authority of government. Greg Forster demonstrates that Locke's theory is liberal and rational but also moral and religious, providing an alternative to the two extremes of religious fanaticism and moral relativism. This account of Locke's thought will appeal to specialists and advanced students across philosophy, political science and religious studies. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture John Marshall, 2006-03-30 Major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern Enlightenment Europe. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: John Locke's Letter on Toleration in Focus John P. Horton, Susan Mendus, 1991 Though several editions of Locke's Letter of Toleration art available, the unique value of this volume lies in the fact that it conbines both the text of the Letter and interpretative, critical essays. Several essays are reprints of the most important articles on the Letter, but there is also new material , specially commissioned for the volume and published here for the first time. Given the importance of Locke's Letter on Toleration, this volume will be welcomed by both students and teachers of political philosophy, the history of political thought, as well as philosophy and politics generally. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: The Pretenses of Loyalty John Perry, 2011-07-06 In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state? In this wide-ranging study, John Perry examines the roots of our thinking on religion and politics, placing the early-modern founders of liberalism in conversation with today's theologians and political philosophers. From the story of Antigone to debates about homosexuality and bans on religious attire, it is clear that liberalism's promise to solve all theo-political conflict is a false hope. The philosophy connecting John Locke to John Rawls seeks a world free of tragic dilemmas, where there can be no Antigones. Perry rejects this as an illusion. Disputes like the culture wars cannot be adequately comprehended as border encroachments presided over by an impartial judge. Instead, theo-political conflict must be considered a contest of loyalties within each citizen and believer. Drawing on critics of Rawls ranging from Michael Sandel to Stanley Hauerwas, Perry identifies what he calls a 'turn to loyalty' by those who recognize the inadequacy of our usual thinking on the public place of religion. The Pretenses of Loyalty offers groundbreaking analysis of the overlooked early work of Locke, where liberalism's founder himself opposed toleration. Perry discovers that Locke made a turn to loyalty analogous to that of today's communitarian critics. Liberal toleration is thus more sophisticated, more theologically subtle, and ultimately more problematic than has been supposed. It demands not only governmental neutrality (as Rawls believed) but also a reworked political theology. Yet this must remain under suspicion for Christians because it places religion in the service of the state. Perry concludes by suggesting where we might turn next, looking beyond our usual boundaries to possibilities obscured by the liberalism we have inherited. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter concerning Toleration. Translated from the Latin of John Locke by W. Popple John Locke, 1757 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Two Treatises of Government John Locke, 2020 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Locke: Political Writings John Locke, 2003-03-15 John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 (a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XVI unleashed a reign of terror against Protestants in France), is a classic defense of religious freedom. Yet many of Locke's other writings--not least the Constitutions of Carolina, which he helped draft--are almost defiantly anti-liberal in outlook. This comprehensive collection brings together the main published works (excluding polemical attacks on other people's views) with the most important surviving evidence from among Locke’s papers relating to his political philosophy. David Wootton's wide-ranging and scholarly Introduction sets the writings in the context of their time, examines Locke's developing ideas and unorthodox Christianity, and analyzes his main arguments. The result is the first fully rounded picture of Locke’s political thought in his own words. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Selected Writings Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon, 1994-01-01 Featuring the works from Marx's enormous corpus, this title covers Marx's development from the Hegelian idealism of his youth to the mature socialism of his later works. It includes writings from Marx's early philosophical works, and the central writings on historical materialism. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Selected Political Writings Niccolò Machiavelli, David Wootton, 1994-01-01 Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice. (And indeed, Wootton's Machiavelli literally does so when the occasion demands: Renderings of that most problematic of words, virtù, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction, no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: The Classical Utilitarians Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, 2003-03-15 This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his Remarks on Bentham's Philosophy. The selection from Mill's A System of Logic is of special relevance to the debate between those who read Mill as an Act-Utilitarian and those who interpret him as a Rule-Utilitarian. Also included are selections from the writings of Jeremy Bentham, founder of modern Utilitarianism and mentor (together with James Mill) of John Stuart Mill. Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation had important effects on political and legal reform in his own time and continues to provide insights for political theorists and philosophers of law. Seven chapters of Bentham's Principles are here in their entirety, together with a number of shorter selections, including one in which Bentham repudiates the slogan often used to characterize his philosophy: The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number. John Troyer's Introduction presents the central themes and arguments of Bentham and Mill and assesses their relevance to current discussions of Utilitarianism. The volume also provides indexes, a glossary, and notes. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration. By John Locke .. The Twelfth Edition Corrected John Locke, 1762 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Locke: Political Essays John Locke, 1997 We know more about the development of John Locke's ideas than we do about almost any other philosopher's before modern times. This book brings together a comprehensive collection of the writings on politics and society that stand outside the canonical works which Locke published during his lifetime. In the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 the three works by which he is chiefly known appeared: the Two Treatises of Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and A Letter Concerning Toleration, and the themes raised in these works had been reflected upon over many years. Mark Goldie's edition makes possible the fullest exploration of the evolution of Locke's ideas concerning the philosophical foundations of morality and sociability, the boundary of church and state, the shaping of constitutions, and the conduct of government and public policy. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures John Locke, 1695 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Integralism and the Common Good P. Edmund Waldstein, 2021-11-10 Wisdom, in the full sense, is a matter of knowing something that is not subject to political deliberation, that is, the First Principle and Last End of all things. It includes understanding the order of all things from that Principle and to that End-an order that we, as human beings, ought to reflect and embody in our own actions and in our common life in society. The political implications of this truth have been obscured in the modern era by the errors of liberalism, which, granting human reason a false supremacy, makes of man's own deliberation the only measure of the good, even its originator. The result is that every society comes to be seen and treated as a conventional, contractual, artificial, collective egoism. The authors whose writings appear in this volume-most of them first published at The Josias-share the conviction that there is urgent need to combat the errors of liberalism, both in the world and in the Catholic Church itself-for men cannot be truly happy unless their lives are integrated into the greater order that emanates from God. To overcome modern errors, a broadening of reason is necessary: we must draw upon the deepest sources of philosophical and theological wisdom, upon the deepest insights of human reason reflecting on the whole breadth of human experience, and upon the supernatural light of Divine Revelation. This first volume of essays treats the main questions of practical philosophy: the principles of human action and the common goods of natural human communities, ranging from the smallest and most fundamental (the household) to the greatest and most encompassing (the political community). The second volume will be devoted to the relations of those natural communities to the supernatural Kingdom established by Christ. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration. By John Locke, Esq John Locke, 1800 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Of our knowledge of the existence of a God [book 4, chapter 10 of the Essay concerning human understanding]. John Locke, 1872 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: John Locke John Locke, 2002 Locke lived at a time of heightened religious sensibility, and religious motives and theological beliefs were fundamental to his philosophical outlook. Here, Victor Nuovo brings together the first comprehensive collection of Locke's writings on religion and theology. These writings illustrate the deep religious motivation in Locke's thought. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money John Locke, 1692 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: God, Locke, and Liberty Joseph Loconte, 2016-03-02 God, Locke, and Liberty argues that John Locke based his most famous defense of religious freedom on a radical reinterpretation of the life and teachings of Jesus. In a fresh and provocative analysis of Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration, this new intellectual history examines the importance of the spiritual reform movement known as Christian humanism to Locke's bracing vision of a tolerant and pluralistic society. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Difference and Dissent Cary J. Nederman, John Christian Laursen, 1996 This innovative collection points to the need for a reevaluation of the origins of toleration theory. Philosophers, intellectual historians, and political theorists have assumed that the development of the theory of toleration has been a product of the modern world, and John Locke is usually regarded as the first theorist of toleration. The contributors to Difference and Dissent, however, discuss a range of conceptual positions that were employed by medieval and early modern thinkers to support a theory of toleration, and question the claim that Locke's theory of toleration was as original or philosophically adequate as his adherents have asserted. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Political Theologies Hent de Vries, Lawrence Eugene Sullivan, 2006 What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? Containing contributions from distinguished scholars from disciplines, such as: philosophy, political theory, anthropology, classics, and religious studies, this book seeks to address this question. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Divinity and State David Womersley, 2010-02-18 In 1589 the Privy Council encouraged the Archbishop of Canterbury to take steps to control the theatres, which had offended authority by putting on plays which addressed 'certen matters of Divinytie and of State unfitt to be suffred'. How had questions of divinity and state become entangled? The Reformation had invested the English Crown with supremacy over the Church, and religious belief had thus been transformed into a political statement. In the plentiful chronicle literature of the sixteenth-century, questions of monarchical legitimacy and religious orthodoxy became intertwined as a consequence of that demand for a usable national past created by the high political developments of the 1530s. Divinity and State explores the consequences of these events in the English historiography and historical drama of the sixteenth century. It is divided into four parts. In the first, the impact of reformed religion on narratives of the national past is measured and described. Part II examines how the entanglement of the national past and reformed religion was reflected in historical drama from Bale to the early years of James I, and focuses on two paradigmatic characters: the sanctified monarch and the martyred subject. Part III considers Shakespeare's history plays in the light of the preceding discussion, and finds that Shakespeare's career as a historical dramatist shows him eventually re-shaping the history play with great audacity. Part IV corroborates this reading of Shakespeare's later history plays by reference to the dramatic ripostes they provoked. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: The Works of John Locke John Locke, 1823 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Basic Political Writings Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Donald A. Cress, 1987-01-01 The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory. . . . -- Raymon M Lemos, Teaching Philosophy |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: An Approach to Political Philosophy James Tully, 1993-03-18 An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Context brings together Professor Tully's most important and innovative statements on Locke in a systematic treatment of the latter's thought that is at once contextual and critical. Each essay has been rewritten and expanded for this volume, and each seeks to understand a theme of Locke's political philosophy by interpreting it in light of the complex contexts of early modern European political thought and practice. These historical studies are then used in a variety of ways to gain critical perspectives on the assumptions underlying current debates in political philosophy and the history of political thought. The themes treated include government, toleration, discipline, property, aboriginal rights, individualism, power, labour, self-ownership, community, progress, liberty, participation, and revolution. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: Second Treatise of Government John Locke, 2016 Locke's Second Treatise is a classic of political philosophy. It helped entrench ideas of a social contract, human rights, and consent as guiding principles for modern Western democracy. His Letter calls for religious tolerance and separation of church and state. This edition offers an essential guide to these two foundational works. |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: The Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: John Locke, 1706 |
| locke a letter concerning toleration: John Locke's Christianity Diego Lucci, 2021 Provides a thorough analysis and reassessment of Locke's original, heterodox, internally coherent version of Protestant Christianity. |
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The toleration of those that differ from others in matters of religion is so agreeable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to the genuine reason of mankind, that it seems monstrous for men to be so …
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Author:John Locke Editor:Mark Goldie About This Title: Part of the Thomas Hollis Library published by Liberty Fund. This volume contains A Letter Concerning Toleration, excerpts of …
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Two different editions of Locke's famous letter on the Toleration which the various Christian churches should show among themselves appeared in 1689: one in Gouda, in Holland,
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John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration was one of the seventeenth cen- tury’s most eloquent pleas to Christians to renounce religious persecution. It was also timely.
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8 Throughout the First Letter locke makes use of the literary form of an academic disputatio, in which possible objections to locke’s thesis are attributed to an imaginary opponent.
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Toleration John Locke 2: The role of the civil magistrate outright admit to them.... But I do want to help putting an end to the activities of (1) people who plead a concern for ‘the public good and …
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Locke’s Letter and Evangelical Tolerance John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration was one of the seventeenth cen-tury’s most eloquent pleas to Christians to renounce religious persecution. …
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John Locke's response: John Locke wrote his “A letter Concerning Toleration” as an answer to these abuses and a means of prodding a rectification. Here are the main points that Locke …
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Published in 1689, John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration is a short work with a huge impact, for it is an influential essay on the role of toleration in Christianity from both a …
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Since you are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their different professions of religion, I must needs answer you freely that I esteem that …
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A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) By John Locke The toleration of those that differ from others in matters of religion is so agreeable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to the genuine …
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Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is his second best-known work in political philosophy and is one of the great essays on behalf of religious tolera-tion. Locke defends …
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First, I locate toleration in light of Locke's psychology of human nature. Second, I examine his early rejection of toleration and how this rejection should lead one to interpret his later defense. …
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Almost as soon as Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration was pub lished in English, the true belief argument was attacked. In 1690, Jonas Proast, Locke's most famous and prolific critic on the …
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A Letter Concerning Toleration (excerpts) by John Locke 1689 Translated by William Popple H onoured Sir, S ince you are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual …
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I. Locke's Official Arguments for Toleration In A Letter Concerning Toleration, published anonymously in 1689, Locke initially identifies three arguments for toleration.
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Not only was A Letter Concerning Toleration his first publication, but he returned to the issue, in response to objections, to publish a Second Letter (1690) and a Third (1692), and he was at …
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longer-standing criticisms of Locke and his epochal Letter Concerning Toleration (1685/9) that focus on two separate, yet related features: its ethical 'thinness', on the one hand, and its …
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discussion of Locke's response to atheism, the article portrays both the philosopher's calmness and his consistency. Keywords: Locke, toleration, atheism, punishment. denied toleration to …
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The Letter contains Locke’s most famous elaboration of his doctrine of toleration and was extraordinarily influential in England and in America, most notably
A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke - McMaster University
The toleration of those that differ from others in matters of religion is so agreeable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to the genuine reason of mankind, that it seems monstrous for men to be so …
The Online Library of Liberty
Author:John Locke Editor:Mark Goldie About This Title: Part of the Thomas Hollis Library published by Liberty Fund. This volume contains A Letter Concerning Toleration, excerpts of …
CONCERNING TOLERATION - Archive.org
Two different editions of Locke's famous letter on the Toleration which the various Christian churches should show among themselves appeared in 1689: one in Gouda, in Holland,
A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings - Liberty Fund
John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration was one of the seventeenth cen- tury’s most eloquent pleas to Christians to renounce religious persecution. It was also timely.
A Letter concerning Toleration - Internet Archive
8 Throughout the First Letter locke makes use of the literary form of an academic disputatio, in which possible objections to locke’s thesis are attributed to an imaginary opponent.
Toleration - earlymoderntexts.com
Toleration John Locke 2: The role of the civil magistrate outright admit to them.... But I do want to help putting an end to the activities of (1) people who plead a concern for ‘the public good and …
A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings
Locke’s Letter and Evangelical Tolerance John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration was one of the seventeenth cen-tury’s most eloquent pleas to Christians to renounce religious …
Outline of John Locke’s “A Letter Concerning Toleration”
John Locke's response: John Locke wrote his “A letter Concerning Toleration” as an answer to these abuses and a means of prodding a rectification. Here are the main points that Locke …
A Letter Concerning Toleration - The European Liberal Forum
Published in 1689, John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration is a short work with a huge impact, for it is an influential essay on the role of toleration in Christianity from both a …
A Letter Concerning Toleration - American University
Since you are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their different professions of religion, I must needs answer you freely that I esteem that …
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A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) By John Locke The toleration of those that differ from others in matters of religion is so agreeable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to the genuine …
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Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is his second best-known work in political philosophy and is one of the great essays on behalf of religious tolera-tion. Locke defends …
Locke on Toleration: The Transformation of Constraint - JSTOR
First, I locate toleration in light of Locke's psychology of human nature. Second, I examine his early rejection of toleration and how this rejection should lead one to interpret his later …
LOCKE'S MAIN ARGUMENT FOR TOLERATION - JSTOR
Almost as soon as Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration was pub lished in English, the true belief argument was attacked. In 1690, Jonas Proast, Locke's most famous and prolific critic on the …
A Letter Concerning Toleration - Stephen Hicks
A Letter Concerning Toleration (excerpts) by John Locke 1689 Translated by William Popple H onoured Sir, S ince you are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual …
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I. Locke's Official Arguments for Toleration In A Letter Concerning Toleration, published anonymously in 1689, Locke initially identifies three arguments for toleration.
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Not only was A Letter Concerning Toleration his first publication, but he returned to the issue, in response to objections, to publish a Second Letter (1690) and a Third (1692), and he was at …
LOCKE ON TOLERATION, (IN)CIVILITY AND THE QUEST FOR …
longer-standing criticisms of Locke and his epochal Letter Concerning Toleration (1685/9) that focus on two separate, yet related features: its ethical 'thinness', on the one hand, and its …
It is well known that in his Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), Locke …
discussion of Locke's response to atheism, the article portrays both the philosopher's calmness and his consistency. Keywords: Locke, toleration, atheism, punishment. denied toleration to …
Locke's Case for Religious Toleration: Its Neglected Foundation in …
The Letter contains Locke’s most famous elaboration of his doctrine of toleration and was extraordinarily influential in England and in America, most notably
