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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823901103321

Titolo

Paradoxes of religious toleration in early modern political thought [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Christian Laursen and Maria Jose Villaverde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012

ISBN

1-280-88039-2

9786613721709

0-7391-7218-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LaursenJohn Christian

VillaverdeMa. Jose (Maria Jose)

Disciplina

323.44/209

Soggetti

Religious tolerance - History

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.