A Letter Concerning Toleration - Couverture souple

Locke, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434458032 ISBN 13 : 9781434458032

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2025

Synopsis

A Letter Concerning Toleration is a foundational Enlightenment text advocating for the separation of church and state and the protection of individual conscience. In this influential essay, Locke argues that civil government should not wield power over spiritual matters and that true faith cannot be compelled by force. His vision of religious freedom and mutual respect helped shape modern liberal democracies and remains a cornerstone of political thought on liberty and pluralism.

John Locke (1632-1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, and the American Founding Fathers, as reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.

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Biographie de l'auteur

John Locke (1632-1704), widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to classical republicanism and liberal theory are reflected in the American Declaration of Independence. Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau and Kant. Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He postulated that the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa. Contrary to pre-existing Cartesian philosophy, he maintained that we are born without innate ideas, and that knowledge is instead determined only by experience derived from sense perception.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434458032
• ISBN 13: 9781434458032
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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