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This book looks at the development of the idea of toleration into something like its modern shape in the early enlightenment period and its consequences on the ways in which states treat religion. Essays discuss a range of thinkers and challenge both their image and that of the early enlightenment as the seedbed of liberal modernity.
List of contents
- 1: Simone Zurbuchen: Religious Commitment and Secular Reason: Pufendorf on the Separation between Religion and Politics
- 2: Thomas Ahnert: Samuel Pufendorf and Religious Intolerance in the Early Enlightenment
- 3: Timothy Stanton: Natural law, Nonconformity and Toleration: Two Stages on Locke's Way
- 4: Ian Harris: John Locke and Natural Law: Free Worship and Toleration
- 5: Ian Hunter: The Tolerationist Programmes of Thomasius and Locke
- 6: Maria Rosa Antognazza: Leibniz's Doctrine of Toleration: Philosophical, Theological, and Pragmatic Reasons
- 7: Petter Korkman: Toleration as Impartiality? Civil and Ecclesiastical Toleration in Jean Barbeyrac
- 8: Knud Haakonssen: Natural Rights or Political Prudence? Francis Hutcheson on Toleration
- Postface. The Grounds for Toleration and the Capacity to Tolerate
About the author
Jon Parkin holds an MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge. He was a Research Fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge (1995-8) and King's College London (1998-9) and went on to become Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of York (1999-2012). He is now Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Jon Parkin is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Timothy Stanton holds a BA in Politics from the University of Leicester, an MA with distinction in Political Philosophy: the Idea of Toleration from the University of York and a PhD in Modern History from the University of Leicester. He was Beinecke Fellow at Yale University (2007-8) and Balzan-Skinner Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2011-12) and has been Lecturer in Politics at the University of York since 2004.
Summary
This book looks at the development of the idea of toleration into something like its modern shape in the early enlightenment period and its consequences on the ways in which states treat religion. Essays discuss a range of thinkers and challenge both their image and that of the early enlightenment as the seedbed of liberal modernity.
