02839nam 2200529Ia 450 991095841700332120251117095711.01-280-88039-297866137217090-7391-7218-2(CKB)2550000000104660(EBL)954698(OCoLC)802069651(MiAaPQ)EBC954698(Au-PeEL)EBL954698(CaPaEBR)ebr10577721(CaONFJC)MIL372170(EXLCZ)99255000000010466020120426d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierParadoxes of religious toleration in early modern political thought /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. José(María José)1867587MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910958417003321Paradoxes of religious toleration in early modern political thought4475208UNINA