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  • A Letter Concerning Tolerationby MobileReference

    MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99

    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. In this "letter" addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir" (actually Locke''s close friend Philip von Limborch, who published it without Locke''s knowledge) Locke argues for a new understanding of the relationship between religion and government. One of the founders of Empiricism, Locke develops a philosophy that is contrary to the one expressed by Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, primarily because it supports toleration for various Christian... more...

  • A Letter Concerning Tolerationby John Locke; James H. Tully

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 4.95

    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. An Introduction is provided by James H. Tully, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria. more...

  • Persecution or Tolerationby Adam Wolfson

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2010; US$ 49.99

    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. more...

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