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Author Tate, John William, author.

Title Liberty, toleration and equality : John Locke, Jonas Proast and the letters concerning toleration / John William Tate
Published New York : Routledge, 2016

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Series Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 111
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 111.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Locke and the Liberal Tradition -- Theological Foundations -- Limits of Theology -- "Civil Concerns" -- Locke and the History of Toleration -- Focus -- Tensions -- Wider Literature -- Inside and Outside -- Summary of Chapters -- 1. Locke, Liberty and Governance -- Normative and Practical Justification of Toleration -- Categorical Distinction -- Varieties of Toleration -- Separation of Church and State -- Consent, Legitimacy and Obligation -- Consent, Legitimacy and Toleration -- Realpolitik -- 2. From Conformity to Toleration -- Matters of Influence -- Two Tracts on Government -- Wider Events -- Locke's Early Rejection of Toleration -- Locke, Liberty and the Two Tracts -- Outcomes -- Locke's Shift -- Quantitative vs. Qualitative -- Matters of Influence -- Alternative View -- "A Black Hole" -- 3. From Conformity to Toleration -- Matters of Argument -- Locke's Transition -- Locke's Practical Reassessment -- Normative Dimension -- Competing Imperatives -- Locke's Normative Reassessment -- From the Two Tracts to An Essay Concerning Toleration -- Premise (ii) -- Realpolitik Revisited -- Premise (i) -- Premise (iii) -- 4. Locke in the Dock -- Practical Discourse of the Letter -- Normative Discourse of the Letter -- Locke and Rights -- Two Treatises and the Letter -- Locke as Anti-Liberal -- Waldron's Reading of the Letter -- Waldron's Locke -- Waldron, Locke and the State -- Waldron, Locke and Legitimacy -- Waldron, Locke and Liberalism -- 5. Three "Considerations" for Toleration -- Locke and the "Modal" Account of the State -- Truth Argument -- "Truth Argument" Considered -- Pitfalls of the "Truth Argument" -- "Truth" vs. "Rationality" -- Rationality Argument -- Consent Argument -- "Three Considerations" -- 6. Locke vs. Proast -- Revolution of 1688 -- Locke and Proast -- Pitfalls -- "Indirectly and At a Distance" -- Proast and Restoration England -- Waldron, Goldie and Dunn -- "Third Sort or Degree of Perswasion" -- Goldie Revisited -- 7. Proast's Response: "True Religion and the Salvation of Souls" -- Proast and the Letter -- Truth Argument -- Proast and "True Religion" -- "Begging the Question" -- "Non-Neutral Principles" -- "Geneva" and the "Indies" -- Proast and Religious Diversity -- Proast and the Consent Argument I -- Proast and the Consent Argument II -- Proast's Appeal to God -- Proast, Berlin and Mill -- Rationality Argument -- 8. Locke's Reply: "That Which Without Impiety Cannot be Said" -- "Penalties" -- "Proportion" and "Design" -- Punishment and Conversion -- Locke, Proast and Consent -- Locke, Proast and God -- God, Man and Commonwealths -- Locke's Response to Proast's Appeal to God -- Christian History -- Proast and the Will of God -- Proast's Contradiction -- Proast Agonistes -- 9. Locke, Scepticism and Consent -- Locke and Scepticism I -- (a) and (b) -- Locke and Scepticism II -- Toleration and Moral Choice -- Ultimate Conditions of Possibility I -- Ultimate Conditions of Possibility II -- Locke, Truth and Diversity -- 10. Locke's "Civil Perspective" -- Civil Perspective -- Public Agreement -- Locke and the "Legislative Point of View" -- Locke's Legacy: John Rawls and Political Liberalism -- Rawls and Locke -- 11. Conclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 30, 2016)
Subject Locke, John, 1632-1704. Epistola de tolerantia
Proast, Jonas.
SUBJECT Proast, Jonas. fast (OCoLC)fst00125502
Epistola de tolerantia (Locke, John) fast (OCoLC)fst01363881
Subject Toleration -- Early works to 1800
Liberty -- Early works to 1800
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Liberty.
Toleration.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Early works.
Form Electronic book
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