Locke and the legislative point of view : toleration, contested principles, and law

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Locke and the legislative point of view : toleration, contested principles, and law

Title remainder

toleration, contested principles, and law

Statement of responsibility

Alex Tuckness

Creator

• Tuckness, Alex Scott, 1971-

Subject

• Ethiek
• Law, Politics & Government
• Legislative bodies -- Ethics
• Legislative bodies -- Ethics
• Legislative power
• Legislative power
• Locke, John, 1632-1704
• Locke, John, 1632-1704
• Locke, John, 1632-1704 -- Et la science politique
• Locke, John, 1632-1704 -- Et le droit naturel
• Electronic books
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory
• Parlements -- Morale
• Political Science
• Political Theory of the State
• Political ethics
• Political ethics
• Pouvoir législatif
• Rechtsfilosofie
• Morale politique

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• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the "toleration paradox": believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness argues that John Locke's potential contribution to this debate--what Tuckness terms the "legislative point of view"--Has long been obscured by overemphasis on his doctrine of consent. Building on a line of reasoning Locke made explicit in his later writings on religious toleration, Tuckness explores the

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non fiction

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• dictionaries
• bibliography