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John Locke and argument from economy for tolerance

The objective of this text is to analyze the economic argument that justifies tolerance as a major contributor to the development of peoples in the seventeenth century, according to the interpretation of Locke. Put another way, this paper aims to answer the following question: What is the place of the economic dimension in the Lockean theory of tolerance?

Tolerance; Locke; Economy


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