Champion, Justin (2002) 'Private is in secret free': Hobbes and Locke on the limits of toleration, atheism and heterodoxy In: Les fondements philosophiques de la tolerence. Presses universitaires de France, Paris.
Full text access: Open
Both Hobbes and Locke were strongly motivated by anticlericalism. Hobbes saw public religion as a function of the state, but was willing to countenance any private belief as long as it did not show itself in public dissent. Locke regarded free enquiry as an ultimate good, and would not tolerate either priestcraft or entrenched positions such as atheism to interfere with it.
This is a Published version This version's date is: 2002 This item is peer reviewed
https://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/ed06f292-b20d-ebec-27c5-0e2450e2d831/1/
Deposited by () on 23-Dec-2009 in Royal Holloway Research Online.Last modified on 23-Dec-2009
Published in French,'Le culte prive quand il est rendu dans le secret': Hobbes, Locke et les limites de la tolerence, l'atheisme et l'heterodoxie'. This is the author's own translation.
Ashcraft, R., 'Latitudinarianism and Toleration' in Kroll (1992) Berti, S., 'The First edition of the Traite des trois imposteurs and its debt to Spinoza's Ethics' in Hunter (1992) Champion, J.A.I., The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken (CUP, 1992) Crimmins, J.E, (ed) Secularisation and Political Thought. Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill (1989) de Krey, G., 'Rethinking the Restoration: dissenting cases for conscience 1667-1672' Historical Journal 38 (1995) Dietz, M., (ed) Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory (Kansas, 1990) Dunn, J 'The claim to the freedom of conscience: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of worship' in Grell, O., Tyacke, N., Israel, J., (eds) From Persecution to Toleration (Oxford, 1991) Farr, J., 'Hobbes and the Politics of Biblical Translation' in Dietz (1990) Goldie, M.A. 'John Locke, Jonas Proast and religious toleration 1688-1692' in Walsh, J., Haydon, C., Taylor, S., (eds) The Church of England c1689-1833 (CUP, 1993) Goldie, M.A., 'The Theory of Religious Intolerance in Restoration England' in Goldie, M.A., 'The Reception of Hobbes' in The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700 (ed) Burns. J.H., (CUP, 1991) Grell, O., Tyacke,N., Israel, J. (eds) From Persecution to Toleration (Oxford, 1991 Hobbes, T., Leviathan (ed) Tuck, R., (CUP, 1991) Hobbes, T., De Cive (ed) Warrender, H., (OUP, 1982) Hobbes, T., A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (ed) Cropsey, J., (Chicago, 1971) Hobbes, T., An Answer to Bramhall in English Works volume 4. Horton, J., Mendus, S., John Locke. A Letter Concerning Toleration (1991) Hunter, M., 'The Problem of Athiesm in early modern England' TRHS (1985) Hunter, M., 'Science and heterodoxy: an early modern problem reconsidered' in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (eds) Lindberg, D.C., Westman, R.S. (CUP, 1991) Hunter, M., 'Aikenhead the Atheist' in Hunter (1992) Hunter, M., Wootton, D., (eds) Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (OUP, 1992) Kroll, R., et at (eds) Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640-1700 (CUP, 1992). Locke, J., Four Letters on Toleration (1870) Locke, J., Works 3 volumes (1714, 1740) Locke, J., Correspondence volumes 4-6 (ed) De Beer, E., Marshall, J John Locke. Resistance, Religion and Responisbility (CUP, 1994) Marshall, J., 'John Locke and Latitudinarianism' in Kroll (1992) Mendus, S., Toleration and the limits of Liberalism (1989) Mendus, S., (ed) Justifiying Toleration. Conceptual and historical perspectives (CUP, 1988) Milton, P., 'Hobbes, Heresy and Lord Arlington' History of Political Ideas 14 (1993) Passmore, J.A., 'Locke and the ethics of belief' Proceedings of the British Academy 64 (1978) Rogers, G.A.J., 'Locke and the Latitudinarians:ignorance as a ground of toleration' in Kroll (1992) Rogers, G.A.J., Ryan, A., (eds) Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes (Oxford, 1988) Ryan, A., 'A more tolerant Hobbes?' in Mendus (1988) Seaton, A.A., The Theory of Toleration under the later Stuarts (CUP, 1911) Tindal, M., The Rights of the Christian Church (1706) Tuck, R., 'Scepticism and Toleration in the seventeenth century' in Mendus (1988) Tuck, R., 'Hobbes and Locke on Toleration' in Dietz (1990) Tuck, R., 'The Christian Athiesm of Thomas Hobbes' in Hunter (1992) Tuck, R., 'The civil religion of Thomas Hobbes' in Political Discourse in early modern Britain (eds) Phillipson, N., Skinner, Q., (CUP, 1993) Tully, J., 'Governing Subjects' in Locke in Contexts (CUP, 1993) Tully, J., (ed) John Locke. A Letter Concerning Toleration (Hackett, 1983) Waldron, J., 'Locke: Toleration and the rationality of persecution' in Horton, Mendus (1991) Wootton, D 'John Locke: Socinian' in Crimmins (1989) Wootton, D., (ed) John Locke. Political Writings (1993) Worden, B., 'Toleration and the Cromwellian Protectorate' in Studies in Church History 21 (1984) Wright, G., '1668 Appendix to Leviathan' in Interpretation 18 (1991) Yolton, J.W., John Locke. Problems and Perspectives (CUP, 1969)