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Toleration and Understanding in Locke Toleration and Understanding in Locke Nicholas Jolley 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #NicholasJolley2016 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2016 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016944986 ISBN 978–0–19–879170–6 PrintedinGreatBritainby ClaysLtd,StIvesplc Preface The issue of the unity of Locke’s thought has intrigued me since the beginningofmyacademiccareer.Duringmyearlydaysasaresearch studentItoyedwiththeideaofwritingadissertationonthistopic;at thattime,however,Iwasunsurehowtoframetheproject,andturned my attention instead to Leibniz’s critique of Locke. This led to an unforeseen interest in seventeenth-century rationalism which has lastedeversince.ButIneverwhollyabandonedthehopeofreturning tothetopicwhichintriguedmeasaresearchstudent,andofwriting about it at some length. Despite the many advances in Locke schol- arship during the past few decades I continue to think that there is roomintheliteratureforabookontheissueofhowfarLocke’sthree greatestworkshangtogether.ForthisreasonIhavecomefullcircle. IamverygratefultotwoanonymousrefereesforOxfordUniversity Press for their careful criticisms of an earlier draft and for their valuable suggestions for its improvement. I should like to thank Jan-Erik Jones for his helpful comments on the Introduction. For stimulatingdiscussionsovertheyearsofLocke’spoliticalandreligious thoughtIamindebtedtoJohnDunn,MarkGoldie,JohnRogers,John Simmons,QuentinSkinner,RichardTuck,andthelatePeterLaslett. IshouldliketothankPeterMomtchiloffforhisadviceandforhis encouragementofthisproject.IamalsogratefultoMichaelJanesfor hisskilfulcopy-editing. Contents ListofAbbreviations ix 1. Introduction 1 2. Background:AftertheStorm 12 3. TheProjectofDemarcation 37 4. Individualism:KnowledgeandBelief 57 5. BeliefandtheWill 75 6. Enthusiasm 91 7. TheBoundsofCivilPower 107 8. TheWaytoHeaven 126 9. NaturalLaw 143 10. Conclusion 162 Bibliography 167 Index 173 List of Abbreviations CL E.S.DeBeer(ed.),TheCorrespondenceofJohnLocke,8vols. (Oxford:ClarendonPress,1976–89). Drafts P.H.NidditchandG.A.J.Rogers(eds.),DraftsfortheEssay ConcerningHumanUnderstandingandOtherPhilosophical Writings,Volume1:DraftsAandB(Oxford:Clarendon Press,1990). ECHU P.H.Nidditch(ed.),JohnLocke:AnEssayConcerning HumanUnderstanding(Oxford:ClarendonPress,1975). Referencesarebybook,chapter,andsection. ECT J.R.MiltonandP.Milton(eds.),JohnLocke:AnEssay ConcerningTolerationandOtherWritingsonLawand Politics,1667–1683(Oxford:ClarendonPress,2006). ELN W.VonLeyden(ed.),JohnLocke:EssaysontheLawof Nature(Oxford:ClarendonPress,1954). ET R.KlibanskyandJ.W.Gough(eds.),JohnLocke:Epistola deTolerantia/ALetteronToleration(Oxford:Clarendon Press,1968). Lev C.B.Macpherson(ed.),ThomasHobbes:Leviathan(London: Penguin,1968). LOT R.Vernon(ed.),LockeonToleration(Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress,2010). LW TheWorksofJohnLocke,10vols.(London:1823:repr. Aalen,1963). Proast JonasProast:TheArgumentoftheLetterConcerning Toleration;AThirdLetterConcerningToleration;ASecond LettertotheAuthoroftheThreeLettersforToleration (NewYorkandLondon:Garland,1984).Referencesare bytheoriginaldateofpublication.
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