Locke and the Politics and Theology of Toleration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6345516 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Stanton (0000-0003-2808-3605, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-102 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2006.00567.x |
| OpenAlex | W1981653840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 14 |
Locke's theory of toleration has been understood to rest on the claim that persecution was insufficient to instil either (i) true or (ii) sincere belief in people. Although Locke did indeed make both these claims, neither was fundamental to his theory. Locke was principally concerned to deny that persecution was necessary to instil true or sincere belief; its insufficiency to those ends he, and his contemporaries, took for granted. His denial of the necessity of persecution presupposed that human beings were, in principle, naturally adequate to the discovery of God's wants for them. The same presupposition, which derives from natural theology, underwrote the views in politics and revealed theology that complete his theory and supplied its moral content. Contemporary theories of toleration purposing to proceed on Lockean assumptions are morally and philosophically impoverished by their failure to see the requirements laid on an adequate theory of toleration by genuinely Lockean terms
Denial · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Persecution · Political philosophy · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Presupposition · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Toleration · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions
John Finch on toleration
Property, Space and Sacred History in John Locke's Two Treatises of Government
John Locke, Christian Mission, and Colonial America
Christian foundations; or some loose stones? Toleration and the philosophy of Locke’s politics
Locke, Rationality and Persecution
On the Dark Side of the “Secular”
Liberal Political Theory and the Cultural Migration of Ideas
The Lockean Case for Religious Tolerance
Locke, toleration and natural law
The Rationality of Toleration Revisited or, Why Locke Thinks We Should Suffer Disagreement and Tolerate Division
An Essay concerning Human Understanding
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Drafts for the Essay concerning Human Understanding, and Other Philosophical Writings
The historiography of philosophy
Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism
Two Tracts on Government, by John Locke, Philip Abrams
John Locke
Two treatises of government
Locke, Sincerity and the Rationality of Persecution
History of Christian Doctrine
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |