'Private is in secret free': Hobbes and Locke on the limits of toleration, atheism and heterodoxy

Champion, Justin

(2002)

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.

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Abstract

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.

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Item TypeBook Item
Title'Private is in secret free': Hobbes and Locke on the limits of toleration, atheism and heterodoxy
AuthorsChampion, Justin
Uncontrolled KeywordsHobbes, Locke, anticlericalism, tolerance, erastianism, seventeenth-century England
DepartmentsFaculty of History and Social Science\History

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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.

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