Title: A letter concerning toleration /
Authors: Locke, John,; Walters, Kerry S.,
Date: 2013
Publisher: Broadview Press,
Physical description: 130 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: Locke argued that religious belief ought to be compatible with reason, that no king, prince or magistrate rules legitimately without the consent of the people, and that government has no right to impose religious beliefs or styles of worship on the public. Locke's defense of religious tolerance and freedom of thought was revolutionary in its time. Even today, his letter poses a challenge to religious intolerance, whether state-sponsored or originating from religious dogmatists. Based on both Locke's original Latin and the seventeenth-century English translation of William Popple, this edition offers a reader-friendly version that remains loyal to the original text. In addition to a forty-page introduction that situates the Letter in its historical and philosophical contexts, this edition includes excerpts from writings on religious toleration by William Penn, Baruch Spinoza, Pierre Bayle, and Samuel von Pufendorf, as well as generous selections from the famous Locke-Proast debates on religious toleration. -- Publisher website.
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 -- Appendix B : Locke's contemporaries on religious toleration -- Appendix C : Locke and his critics -- Suggestions for further reading.
Notes: Based on both Locke's original Latin work Epistola de tolerantia and the seventeenth-century English translation by William Popple.
Subject headings (LCSH): Toleration--Early works to 1800.