02769nam 2200493Ia 450 991077925400332120200520144314.01-280-88039-297866137217090-7391-7218-2(CKB)2550000000104660(EBL)954698(OCoLC)802069651(MiAaPQ)EBC954698(Au-PeEL)EBL954698(CaPaEBR)ebr10577721(CaONFJC)MIL372170(EXLCZ)99255000000010466020120426d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Paradoxes of religious toleration in early modern political thought[electronic resource] /edited by John Christian Laursen and Maria Jose VillaverdeLanham, Md. Lexington Booksc20121 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7217-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ToleranceChapter 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 ContributorsThe 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.Religious toleranceHistoryPolitical scienceReligious toleranceHistory.Political science.323.44/209Laursen John Christian281608Villaverde Ma. Jose(Maria Jose)1515780MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779254003321Paradoxes of religious toleration in early modern political thought3751785UNINA