The Secularisation of the Confessional State

The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-20083-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Ideas in Context

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 2007 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunter, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Religion, politics, and the university; 2. The reform of philosophy; 3. Natural law as political psychology; 4. Staatskirchenrecht: the religious rights of the prince; 5. The toleration of heretics; Appendix: The right of Protestant princes regarding heretics.