Paradoxes of religious toleration in early modern political thought / edited by John Christian Laursen and María José Villaverde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laursen, John Christian.

Villaverde, Ma. José (María José)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious tolerance--History.

Religious tolerance.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012]

Summary:

In today's developed world, much of what people believe about religious toleration has evolved from crucial innovations in toleration theory developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers from that period have been rightly celebrated for creating influential, liberating concepts and ideas-that have enabled many of us to live in peace. However, their work was certainly not perfect. In this enlightening volume, John Christian Laursen and Maria José Villaverde have gathered contributors to focus on the paradoxes, blindspots, unexpected flaws, and ambiguities in early modern toleration theories and practices. Each chapter explores the complexities, complications, and inconsistencies that came up in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as people grappled with the idea of toleration. In understanding the weaknesses, con; tradictions, and ambivalences in other theories, the editors and contributors hope to provoke thought about the defects in ways of thinking about toleration in order to help overcome similar problems in contemporary toleration theories. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Spinoza's Paradoxes: An Atheist Who Defended the Scriptures? A Freethinking Alchemist? / María José Villaverde Villaverde, María José 9

2 Spinoza on Lying for Toleration and His Intolerance of Atheists / John Christian Laursen Laursen, John Christian 39

3 Jansenist Fears and Huguenot Polemics: Arnauld, Jurieu, and Bayle on Obedience and Toleration / Luisa Simonutti Simonutti, Luisa 53

4 "The General Freedom, which All Men Enjoy" in a Confessional State: The Paradoxical Language of Politics in the Dutch Republic (1700-1750) / Henri Krop Krop, Henri 67

5 A Leibnizian Way to Tolerance: Between Ethical Universalism and Linguistic Diversity / Concha Roldán Roldán, Concha 91

6 Toleration in China and Siam in Late-Seventeenth-Century European Travel Literature / Rolando Minuti Minuti, Rolando 109

7 Toleration in Denis Veiras's Theocracy / Cyrus Masroori Masroori, Cyrus 121

8 David Hume on Religious Tolerance / Gerardo López Sastre Sastre, Gerardo López 139

9 Rousseau, A False Apostle of Tolerance / María José Villaverde Villaverde, María José 159

10 Intolerance of Fanatics in Bayle, Hume, and Kant / John Christian Laursen Laursen, John Christian 177

11 Tolerance and Intolerance in the Writings of the French Antiphilosophes (1750-1789) / Jonathan Israel Israel, Jonathan 193

12 Immanuel Kant: Tolerance Seen as Respect / Joaquín Abellán Abellán, Joaquín 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739172162

0739172166

9780739172179

0739172174

9780739172186

0739172182

OCLC:

785874877