Locke and the Problem of Toleration

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More than ever before, being able to draw a distinction between the tolerable and the intolerable is necessary. Unfortunately the traditional understanding, as identified with the Enlightenment view first articulated by John Locke, presents merely formalistic criteria. Lacking substantive criteria, our contemporary understanding of toleration is inadequate to our needs

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Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration.John Locke & Ian Shapiro - 2003 - Yale University Press. Edited by Ian Shapiro.
What toleration is.Andrew Jason Cohen - 2004 - Ethics 115 (1):68-95.

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