Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration
1689 · Work
Locke argues that the state has no business compelling belief, since true faith cannot be forced — a founding text of religious liberty, though it excludes Catholics and atheists.
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- Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
- Kant's 'What is Enlightenment?' (1784)
- Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1755)
- Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance (1763)
- The Paris salons (1720)
- Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
- Voltaire and the Calas affair (1762)
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- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)