Liberty, toleration and equality: John Locke, Jonas Proast and the letters concerning toleration

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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