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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tuckness, Alex Scott

Titel

Locke and the legislative point of view: toleration, contested principles, and law

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.