Ian Hunter

Secularisation of the Confessional State (eBook, PDF)

The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius

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Produktbeschreibung

Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) was a tireless campaigner against the political enforcement of religion in the early modern confessional state. In a whole series of combative disputations - against heresy and witchcraft prosecutions, and in favour of religious toleration - Thomasius battled to lay the intellectual groundwork for the separation of church and state and the juridical basis for pluralistic societies. In this text, Ian Hunter departs from the usual view of Thomasius as a natural law moral philosopher. In addition to investigating his anti-scholastic cultural politics, Hunter discusses Thomasius' work in public and church law, particularly his disputations arguing for the toleration of heretics, providing a revealing comparison with Locke's arguments on the same topic. If Locke sought to base toleration in the subjective rights protecting Christian citizens against an intolerant state, Thomasius grounded it in the state's duty to impose toleration as an obligation on intolerant citizens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511373060
• Artikelnr.: 38210604

Autorenporträt

Ian Hunter is a children's author who lives on the south coast of England, UK, with his partner and their two cheeky cats (aka writing mascots).He loves anything creative and can usually be found writing, planning an adventure holiday, or escaping to a fantasy world.Fyn Carter and the Agents of Eromlos is Ian's debut novel. He has many more stories to tell and is excited to share them with children and young-hearted adults like him everywhere.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Religion, politics, and the university
2. The reform of philosophy
3. Natural law as political psychology
4. Staatskirchenrecht: the religious rights of the prince
5. The toleration of heretics
Appendix. The right of Protestant princes regarding heretics.