A Letter Concerning Toleration

A Letter Concerning Toleration

A Letter Concerning Toleration

A Letter Concerning Toleration

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A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke and translated by William Popple. A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England, and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing religious toleration as the answer. This "letter" is addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir": this was actually Locke's close friend Philipp van Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781723150333
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 07/17/2018
Pages: 28
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.06(d)

About the Author

John Locke

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
John Locke: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

A Letter Concerning Toleration

Appendix A: Additional Writings on Toleration and Religion by Locke

  1. From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
  2. From The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)

Appendix B: Locke’s Contemporaries on Religious Toleration

  1. From William Penn, The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated and Defended (1670)
  2. From Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise (1670)
  3. From Pierre Bayle, A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14:23, “Compel them to come in, that my house may be full” (1686)
  4. From Samuel von Pufendorf, Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society (1687)

Appendix C: Locke and His Critics

  1. From Thomas Long, The Letter for Toleration Deciphered, and the Absurdity and Impiety of an Absolute Toleration Demonstrated (1689)
  2. From Jonas Proast, The Argument of the Letter Concerning Toleration, Briefly Considered and Answered (1690)
  3. From Philanthropus [John Locke], A Second Letter Concerning Toleration (1690)

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