John Locke: An Essay concerning Toleration And Other Writings on Law and Politics, 1667-1683

by Milton, J. R.; Milton, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780198237211
• ISBN10: 0198237219
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-11
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

J. R. and Philip Milton present the first critical edition of John Locke's Essay concerning Toleration , based on all extant manuscripts, and a number of other writings on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683. Although Locke never published any of these works himself they are of very great interest for students of his intellectual development because they are markedly different from the early works he wrote while at Oxford and show him working out ideas that were to appear in his mature political writings, the Two Treatises of Government and the Epistola de Tolerantia . With authoritative contextual guidance from the editors, this will be an invaluable resource for all historians of early modern philosophy, of legal, political, and religious thought, and of 17th-century Britain.

Table of Contents

LIST OF PLATES	ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS	x
GENERAL INTRODUCTION	1	(161)
Locke and the Earl of Shaftesbury	1	(10)
An Essay concerning Toleration	11	(42)
Writings on Church and State, 1668-1674	53	(22)
A Letter from a Person of Quality, to His Friend in the Country	75	(43)
The Selection of juries	118	(19)
Entries in Commonplace Books	137	(3)
Writings Printed in the Appendices	140	(6)
Writings Excluded from this Edition	146	(6)
NOTES
A. The Toleration Debate, 1667-1668	152	(5)
B. The Persecution of the Japanese Christians	157	(2)
C. Peers Mentioned in A Letter from a Person of Quality	159	(3)
TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION	162	(103)
I. History and Description of the Texts	162	(82)
An Essay concerning Toleration	162	(30)
Writings on Church and State, 1668-1674	192	(3)
A Letter from a Person of Quality, to His Friend in the Country	195	(38)
The Selection of Juries	233	(1)
Entries in Commonplace Books	234	(3)
Writings Printed in the Appendices	237	(7)
II. Transcription of Manuscripts and Presentation of Printed Texts	244	(21)
The Transcription of Manuscripts	244	(16)
The Presentation of Printed Texts	260	(5)
TEXTS	265	(130)
An Essay concerning Toleration	267	(50)
The First Draft of An Essay concerning Toleration	303	(4)
Additions to An Essay concerning Toleration	307	(10)
Writings on Church and State, 1668-1674	317	(18)
Queries on Scottish Church Government	319	(3)
Notes on Samuel Parker's Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie	322	(5)
Excommunication	327	(8)
A Letter from a Person of Quality, to His Friend in the Country	335	(42)
The Selection of Juries	377	(6)
Entries in Commonplace Books	383	(12)
APPENDICES	395	(28)
I. The Rough Draft of An Essay concerning Toleration	395	(6)
II. Philanthropy, or The Christian Philosophers, and Philanthropy Comments	401	(3)
III. Queries on Catholic Infallibility	404	(4)
IV. Reasons against the Bill for the Test	408	(7)
V. Shaftesbury's Speech to the House of Lords	415	(2)
VI. The Test Bill	417	(3)
VII. Queries on jury Selection	420	(3)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	423	(24)
INDEX OF SUBJECTS	447	(6)
INDEX OF PERSONS	453