John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration, first published in Latin as Epistola de Tolerantia in 1689 and the same year in this English edition from Awnsham Churchill, is a primary philosophical text. Its strength is that it is Locke's own foundational argument for religious toleration, built directly on his own empiricist epistemology. Its limit is one Locke himself imposed: his own argument explicitly excluded Catholics and atheists from the toleration he was defending, a limit worth stating alongside the text's influence.
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John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration, published in this English edition by Awnsham Churchill in 1689, the same year as the original Latin Epistola de Tolerantia, the top tier reflecting Locke's own foundational primary argument for religious toleration, built directly on his own empiricist epistemology. Its limit is one Locke himself imposed: his own argument explicitly excluded Catholics and atheists from the toleration he was defending, worth stating alongside the text's influence. NotesPrimary text, first published (in Latin, as Epistola de Tolerantia) 1689. Locke's own argument for toleration built on his empiricist epistemology, and his own exclusion of Catholics and atheists. Use for the Empiricism philosophicalschool fact.
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AuthorJohn Locke
PublisherAwnsham Churchill, London (first English edition, 1689)
Publication Year1689
Source Typeprimary-text
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