Natural law and toleration in the early Enlightenment / edited by Jon Parkin & Timothy Stanton.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Parkin, Jon (Jonathan Bruce), 1969-
• Stanton, Timothy (Professor of political science)

Series:

• Proceedings of the British Academy ; 186.
• Proceedings of the British Academy ; 186

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Toleration--Europe--History--18th century.
• Toleration--Religious aspects--Christianity.
• Freedom of religion--Europe--History.
• Enlightenment.
• Natural law.
• Religion and state--Europe--History--18th century.
• Natural theology.
• Religion and state.
• History.
• Freedom of religion.
• Toleration.
• Europe.

Physical Description:

xxi, 231 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Contents:

• Religious commitment and secular reason: Pufendorf on the separation between religion and politics
• Samuel Pufendorf and religious intolerance in the early Enlightenment
• Natural law, nonconformity, and toleration: two stages on Locke's Way
• John Locke and natural law: free worship and toleration
• The Tolerationist programmes of Thomasius and Locke
• Leibniz's Doctrine of Toleration: philosophical, theological, and pragmatic reasons
• Toleration as impartiality? Civil and ecclesiastical toleration in Jean Barbeyrac
• Natural rights or political prudence? Francis Hutcheson on toleration
• Postface: The Grounds for toleration and the capacity to tolerate.

Notes:

• Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780197265406
• 0197265405

OCLC:

818449972