Title

Locke and the Problem of Toleration

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in: Contemporary Philosophy Vol.XXVIII, No. 1&2 (Conference 2007)

Abstract

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.