Locke on Toleration

Informationen zum Autor Richard Vernon is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. His previous publications include The Career of Toleration: John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After (1997). Klappentext Enables students to assess critically the development of Locke's theory of toleration and its importance for liberalism. Zusammenfassung John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is one of the most widely-read texts in the political theory of toleration! and a key text for the liberal tradition. This new! accessible translation enables students to examine a major work in the history of political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the texts and translation; Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration; Locke: Second Treatise on Government (excerpt); Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (excerpt); Proast: The Argument of the Letter Concerning Toleration, Briefly Considered and Answered; Locke: A Second Letter Concerning Toleration (excerpts); Proast: A Third Letter Concerning Toleration (excerpts); Locke: A Third Letter for Toleration (excerpts); Proast: A Second Letter to the Author of the Three Letters for Toleration (excerpt); Locke: A Fourth Letter for Toleration (excerpts); Index.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Vernon, Richard (University of Western Ontario) Vernon, Richard A. Vernon
• Assisted by: Richard Vernon (Editor), Richard (University of Western Ontario) Vernon (Editor), Michael Silverthorne (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521764193
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76419-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History; Cambridge Texts in the History; Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous