...prominence he was in no doubt that ultimately there could be no toleration of those opinions antagonistic to human society or to those moral rules which are necessary to the 'preservation of civil society'. A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). 83. The basic modern statement of this is Hart's discussion...

...arguments implicit in the practices of wunnegin propose a similar case. anyone who appeared to have "opinions contrary to human society or to those moral rules which are necessary for the preservation of society" (Locke 1955, 50). Anne Hutchinson, for example, clearly held such...

...the will, are within men's power to perform, and can be known. Practical opinions are beliefs about "those moral rules which are necessary to the preservation of civil society" (Works 1823, 6:45). Whether rationally grounded or the product of revelation, these opinions and rules...

...the issue by saying that religious beliefs and practices are not to be tolerated if they are contrary "to those moral rules which are necessary to the preservation of civil society."98 He never goes on to discuss the question of how these moral rules are to be determined,...

...There are two sorts of contests amongst men: the one managed by law, the other by force; and these are of that nature, that where the one ends, the other...society, are to be tolerated by the magistrate. But of these, indeed, examples in any Church are rare. For no sect can usually arrive to such a degree of...

...state to individual or collective claims of conscience, no matter how insistent, but countered that "[n]o opinions contrary to human society, or to those...Civil Society, are to be tolerated by the Magistrate"; and that the magistrate has, despite subjects' "liberty of conscience", an equal "right of imposing".109...

...the idea of placing limits on tolerance by insisting that the state should limit the propagation of "opinions contrary to human society, or to those moral...are necessary to the preservation of civil society." 40 Such opinions include religious opinions or cultural views or practices that are deemed harmful...

...self-government. [Political Freedom, p. 57] Locke, on the other hand, had insisted in his Letter that "no opinions contrary to human society, or to those...society, are to be tolerated by the magistrate." But, presumably, the magistrate — the sovereign authority? — is permitted to hear and weigh such opinions:...

...other human creation. On this interpretation, "human society" appears to be virtually synonymous with "those moral rules which are necessary to the preservation of civil society." The contract underlying civil society only functions if its terms are morally obligatory, so to uphold...

...existence — relates to his fourth, and vaguest, category of what does not deserve toleration, namely, "opinions contrary to human society, or to those moral...are necessary to the preservation of civil society" (Toleration, 50). Previous to this, Locke said that "things that are prejudicial to the commonweal...