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Toleration and Understanding in Locke

by Nicholas Jolley

Religious toleranceLocke, john, 1632-1704TolerationComprehension (Theory of knowledge)

Nicholas Jolley argues that Locke's three greatest works - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia - are unified by a concern to promote the cause of religious toleration. Jolley shows how Locke uses the principles of his theory of knowledge to criticize religious persecution.

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Book data: Open Library