Christian tolerance and tolerance of the Christians

Natural law and conscience in James Dundas’s Idea Philosophiae Moralis (1679)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13104331
AutoresGiovanni Gellera (0000-0002-8403-3170, University of Lausanne, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume5
Fascículo2
Páginas171-190
Data de publicação2019-12-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Intellectual History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2380-1883 • E-ISSN: 2380-1891
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23801883.2019.1699886
OpenAlexW2991700966
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas8

In 1663, James Dundas, First Lord Arniston (c.1620–1679), a judge and a Covenanter, suffered from the anti-Presbyterian Restoration policies. In 1679 he began to write the Idea philosophiae moralis but died before finishing the book. The Idea is a moral philosophical treatise in the tradition of Reformed scholasticism. The manuscript, only recently discovered in the Dundas family library, is an entirely new source for the study of Restoration Scotland. This paper presents what Dundas has to say about themes which are relevant to the seventeenth-century debates about tolerance regarding religion: Christian tolerance, conscience, natural law and the state. Dundas primarily understands tolerance as a Christian virtue helpful in the performance of moral duty. The paper suggests that a political concept of tolerance regarding religion is implicit in the Idea. Tolerance could be extended to those law-abiding Christians who subscribe to the moral-philosophical rational core of the divine and natural law, which grounds the unity of the state

Canon Law · Conscience · Duty · Natural (archaeology · Natural law · Political science · Politics · Scholasticism · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · Virtue · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought