The Tolerationist Programmes of Thomasius and Locke
The Tolerationist Programmes of Thomasius and Locke
This chapter argues that historical accounts of toleration should not be based in philosophical conceptions of religion and politics — as grounded in individual rational choice — but, rather, in historical investigations of the political-religious regimes that tolerationist programmes were designed to attack and undo. It develops a contrast between John Locke and the Christian Thomasius (1655–1728), Professor of Natural Law at Leipzig University. In being directed at different kinds of confessional state, the tolerationist programmes of Thomasius and Locke differ in unexpected ways, ways which are clarified in this chapter.
Keywords: Locke, Thomasius, toleration, philosophy, history, confessional state, deconfessionalization
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