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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      December 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511490590
      9780521880558
      9780521200837
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490590
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 234 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (87)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (87)
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    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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    Review of the hardback:'Hunter’s excellent book offers the first really convincing account of Thomasius’ political thought in any language. It is a major contribution to our understanding of the early German Enlightenment and to the development of German political thought.'

    Joachim Whaley Source: The English Historical Review

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