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List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Knowledge and Experimental Method
1. Locke and Non-Propositional Knowledge, Peter R. Anstey (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Boyle and Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities: A Reappraisal, Shigeyuki Aoki (Chuo University, Japan)
3. Berkeley’s Experimental Method in An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, Yasuaki Nakano (Gakushuin University and Keio University, Japan)
Part II: Law and Politics
4. A Defence of Locke’s Consent Theory against Hume’s Critique, Takumichi Kojo (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)
5. Locke's Political Constitutionalism: A Re-examination of his Idea of the Prerogative, Ryuichi Yamaoka (Open University of Japan, Japan)
6. The Death Penalty and a Lockean Impossibilism, Masaki Ichinose (Musashino University, Japan)
Part III: Religion and Toleration
7. Locke’s Harm Argument and the Largeness of Toleration, Kiyoshi Shimokawa (Gakushuin University, Japan)
8. Salvation and Reasonableness in Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity, Keisuke Takei (Fukuoka University, Japan)
9. Locke on Sex, Marriage and the State, J.K. Numao (Keio University, Japan)
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Kiyoshi Shimokawa is Professor of Philosophy at Gakushuin University, Japan.Peter R. Anstey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Summary
Locke scholarship has been flourishing in Japan for several decades, but its output is largely unknown to the West. This collection makes available in English for the first time the fruits of recent Japanese research, opening up the possibility of advancing Locke studies on an international scale.
Covering three important areas of Locke’s philosophical thought – knowledge and experimental method, law and politics, and religion and toleration – this volume criticizes established interpretations and replaces them with novel alternatives, breaking away from standard narratives and providing fresh ways of looking at Locke’s relationship with philosophers such as Boyle, Berkeley and Hume. The specific topics that have been selected are ones that continue to have important contemporary moral and political implications, from constitutionalism and toleration to marriage and the death penalty.
Applying Locke’s views to 21st-century questions, this collection presents provocative readings of the defining aspects of Locke’s philosophical thought, stimulating current debates and heralding a new era of collaborative work for Locke scholars around the world.
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This exciting new collection introduces English readers to a previously inaccessible world of Locke scholarship in Japan. By bringing together a set of excellent chapters on Locke’s engagement with experimental science, politics and law, and religion and toleration, Anstey and Shimokawa show how viewing a canonical author from different religious and cultural perspectives can reveal surprising and provocative new insights.
