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Paradoxes of religious toleration in early modern political thought /

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 thei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Laursen, John Christian, Villaverde, Ma. José (María José)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Spinoza's paradoxes : an atheist who defended the Scriptures? A Freethinking alchemist? / María José Villaverde
  • Spinoza on lying for toleration and his intolerance of atheists / John Christian Laursen
  • Jansenist fears and Huguenot polemics : Arnauld, Jurieu, and Bayle on obedience and toleration / Luisa Simonutti
  • "The general freedom, which all men enjoy" in a confessional state : the paradoxical language of politics in the Dutch Republic (1700-1750) / Henri Krop
  • A Leibnizian way to tolerance : between ethical universalism and linguistic diversity / Concha Roldán
  • Toleration in China and Siam in late-seventeenth-century European travel literature / Rolando Minutti
  • Toleration in Denis Veiras's theocracy / Cyrus Masroori
  • David Hume on religious tolerance / Gerardo López Sastre
  • Rousseau, a false apostle of tolerance / María José Villaverdi
  • Intolerance of fanatics in Bayle, Hume, and Kant / John Christian Laursen
  • Tolerance and intolerance in the writings of the French Antiphilosophes (1750-1789) / Jonathan Israel
  • Immanuel Kant : tolerance seen as respect / Joaquin Abellán.