John Locke: resistance, religion and responsability
This book provides a major historical account of the development of the political, religious, social and moral thought of the political theorist and philosopher John Locke. It offers reinterpretations of several of his most important works, particularly the Two Treatises, and includes extensive analyses of his unpublished manuscripts.
Print Book, English, 1994
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994
XXI, 485 p. 23 cm.
9780521466875, 9780521443807, 0521466873, 0521443806
432025314
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Locke's intellectual development; Part I. Religion and the Politics of Toleration: 1. Against the 'tyranny of a religious rage'; 2. Restoration churchmanship and the 'Essay on Toleration'; 3. Undermining the temple of worship of priest and prince; 4. The theology of a reasonable man 1667–83; Part II. Resistance and Responsibility: 5. Locke's moral and social thought 1660–81: the ethics of a gentleman; 6. Resistance and the Second Treatise; 7. Locke's moral and social thought 1681–1704; Part III. Heresy, Priestcraft and Toleration; John Locke Against the 'Empire of Darkness': 8. Theology, epistemology and toleration: against the 'Empire of Darkness'; 9. The contexts of The Reasonableness of Christianity; 10. From the Reasonableness to the Paraphrase: a unitarian heretic; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.