- Title
- Liberty, toleration and equality: John Locke, Jonas Proast and the letters concerning toleration
- Creator
- Tate, John William
- Relation
- Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought 111
- Relation
- https://www.routledge.com/Liberty-Toleration-and-Equality-John-Locke-Jonas-Proast-and-the-Letters/Tate/p/book/9781138647800
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition. Liberty, Toleration and Equality examines the development of Locke’s ideal of toleration, from its beginnings, to the culmination of this development in Locke’s fifteen year debate with his great antagonist, the Anglican clergyman, Jonas Proast. Locke, like Proast, was a sincere Christian, but unlike Proast, Locke was able to develop, over time, a perspective on toleration which allowed him to concede liberty to competing views which he, personally, perceived to be "false and absurd". In this respect, Locke sought to affirm what has since become the basic liberal principle that liberty and toleration are most significant when they are accorded to views to which we ourselves are profoundly at odds.
- Subject
- John Locke; Jonas Proast; toleration; liberty; equality
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324426
- Identifier
- uon:25033
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138647800
- Language
- eng
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