Locke and the Legislative Point of View: Toleration, Contested Principles, and the Law by Alex Tuckness
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Overview: Determining which moral principles should guide political action is a vexing question in political theory. This is especially true when faced with the “toleration paradox”: believing that something is morally wrong but also believing that it is wrong to suppress it. In this book, Alex Tuckness argues that John Locke’s potential contribution to this debate–what Tuckness terms the “legislative point of view”–has long been obscured by overemphasis on his doctrine of consent. Building on a line of reasoning Locke made explicit in his later writings on religious toleration, Tuckness explores the idea that we should act politically only on those moral principles that a reasonable legislator would endorse; someone, that is, who would avoid enacting measures that could be self-defeating when applied by fallible human beings.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy
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