Douglas Casson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Casson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Casson |
| SIGNATURE | CASSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Olaf College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Rationality of Toleration Revisited or, Why Locke Thinks We Should Suffer Disagreement and Tolerate Division
Much of the confusion and debate surrounding the rational basis for Locke’s notion of toleration rests on the assumption that Locke seeks to convince a single, sovereign authority to tolerate dissenters. Yet this is not Locke’s goal. In the Two Treatises of Government, he describes a polity with multiple claimants to supreme authority under changing conditions. He proposes a state without sovereignty. The cohesion of this state stems not from the…
Emergency Judgment
Faced with an unsettling expansion of executive emergency power in the United States, scholars have turned to the thought of Carl Schmitt to shed light on constitutional liberalism. Yet the resources for responding to Schmitt can be found in the very tradition that he urges his readers to overcome. Locke recognized what many liberal thinkers since have been hesitant to admit. Fixed laws can help restrain prerogative to a certain extent but cannot…
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Emergency Judgment
Faced with an unsettling expansion of executive emergency power in the United States, scholars have turned to the thought of Carl Schmitt to shed light on constitutional liberalism. Yet the resources for responding to Schmitt can be found in the very tradition that he urges his readers to overcome. Locke recognized what many liberal thinkers since have been hesitant to admit. Fixed laws can help restrain prerogative to a certain extent but cannot…
The Rationality of Toleration Revisited or, Why Locke Thinks We Should Suffer Disagreement and Tolerate Division
Much of the confusion and debate surrounding the rational basis for Locke’s notion of toleration rests on the assumption that Locke seeks to convince a single, sovereign authority to tolerate dissenters. Yet this is not Locke’s goal. In the Two Treatises of Government, he describes a polity with multiple claimants to supreme authority under changing conditions. He proposes a state without sovereignty. The cohesion of this state stems not from the…
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