| Description |
1 online resource (166 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- 1 A New Kind of Politics? -- 2 John Milton and Expressive Conscience -- I Milton's Liberty "Above All Liberties" -- II Licensing and Books "Promiscuously Read" -- III The Exercising of Conscience -- IV The "Least Bruise of Conscience" -- V Conclusion -- 3 Thomas Hobbes and Instilled Conscience -- I Hobbes's Ambivalence Toward Conscience -- II Hobbes's Conceptual History of Conscience -- III The "Seditious" Doctrine of Liberty of Conscience |
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IV The Futility of Coercion -- V Instilled Conscience and Civic Education -- VI Competing Sovereigns, Competing Consciences -- VII Conclusion -- 4 Baruch Spinoza and Conscientious Speech -- I Spinoza's Hobbism -- II Conformity, Pluralism, and Authority -- III The Challenge of Conformity -- IV Hypocrisy, "Good Faith," and Conscientious Speech -- V Conclusion -- 5 Pierre Bayle and Tormented Conscience -- I Bayle and "Half-Toleration" Men -- II Hypocritical Conformity and Tormented Conscience -- III Conformity and Zealotry -- IV Conclusion -- 6 The Politics of Conscience |
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I Liberty of Conscience and Early Modernity -- II The Politics of Conscience -- III Arlene's Flowers and the Psychology of Conscience -- IV Warren and the Progressive Politics of Conscience -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book uncovers the threat of conformity to liberty of conscience, past and present |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009371971 |
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1009371975 |
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