Liberty, toleration and equality: John Locke, Jonas Proast and the letters concerning toleration

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Locke and the Liberal Tradition -- Theological Foundations -- The Limits of Theology -- "Civil Concerns" -- Locke and the History of Toleration -- The Focus -- Tensions -- The Wider Literature -- Inside and Outside -- Summary of Chapters -- 1 Locke, Liberty and Governance -- The Normative and Practical Justification of Toleration -- Categorical Distinction -- Varieties of Toleration -- Separation of Church and State -- Consent, Legitimacy and Obligation -- Consent, Legitimacy and Toleration -- Realpolitik -- 2 From Conformity to Toleration - Matters of Influence Two Tracts on Government -- Wider Events -- Locke's Early Rejection of Toleration -- Locke, Liberty and the Two Tracts -- Outcomes -- Locke's Shift -- Quantitative vs. Qualitative -- Matters of Influence -- An Alternative View -- "A Black Hole" -- 3 From Conformity to Toleration - Matters of Argument -- Locke's Transition -- Locke's Practical Reassessment -- Normative Dimension -- Competing Imperatives -- Locke's Normative Reassessment -- From the Two Tracts to An Essay Concerning Toleration -- Premise (ii) -- Realpolitik Revisited -- Premise (i) -- Premise (iii) -- 4 Locke in the Dock -- The Practical Discourse of the Letter -- The Normative Discourse of the Letter -- Locke and Rights -- The Two Treatises and the Letter -- Locke as Anti-Liberal -- Waldron's Reading of the Letter -- Waldron's Locke -- Waldron, Locke and the State -- Waldron, Locke and Legitimacy -- Waldron, Locke and Liberalism -- 5 Three "Considerations" for Toleration -- Locke and the "Modal" Account of the State -- The Truth Argument -- The "Truth Argument" Considered -- Pitfalls of the "Truth Argument" -- "Truth" vs. "Rationality" -- The Rationality Argument -- The Consent Argument.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Locke and the Liberal Tradition -- Theological Foundations -- The Limits of Theology -- "Civil Concerns" -- Locke and the History of Toleration -- The Focus -- Tensions -- The Wider Literature -- Inside and Outside -- Summary of Chapters -- 1 Locke, Liberty and Governance -- The Normative and Practical Justification of Toleration -- Categorical Distinction -- Varieties of Toleration -- Separation of Church and State -- Consent, Legitimacy and Obligation