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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453059503321

Autore

Laursen John Christian

Titolo

Paradoxes of Religious Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2012

ISBN

1-280-88039-2

9786613721709

0-7391-7218-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VillaverdeMaria Jose

AbellánJoaquín

IsraelJonathan <1946->

KropHenri

SastreGerardo López

MasrooriCyrus

MinutiRolando

RoldánConcha

SimonuttiLuisa

Disciplina

323.44209

Soggetti

Religious tolerance - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Spinoza's Paradoxes; Chapter Two: Spinoza on Lying for Toleration and His Intolerance of Atheists; Chapter Three: Jansenist Fears and Huguenot Polemics; Chapter Four: "The General Freedom, which All Men Enjoy" in a Confessional State; Chapter Five: A Leibnizian Way to Tolerance; Chapter Six: Toleration in China and Siam in Late-Seventeenth-Century European Travel Literature; Chapter Seven: Toleration in Denis Veiras's Theocracy; Chapter Eight: David Hume on Religious Tolerance; Chapter Nine: Rousseau, A False Apostle of Tolerance

Chapter Ten: Intolerance of Fanatics in Bayle, Hume, and KantChapter Eleven: Tolerance and Intolerance in the Writings of the French



Antiphilosophes (1750-1789); Chapter Twelve: Immanuel Kant; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The early modern theories of religious toleration that were so influential on our own ways of thinking about religion and tolerance were ripe with paradox, ambiguity, inconsistency, hidden flaws, and blind spots. The scholars in this volume explore those weak points in the hope that identifying their causes may help us strengthen our own ideas and promote toleration in ways that can avoid those paradoxes.