A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings. John Locke

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СКАЧАТЬ on schools, appears later. Locke’s final comment is comprehensively negative: “the whole is so far from a frame of government that it scarce contains a part of the materials.”

      Pacific Christians (1688).

      MS Locke c. 27, fol. 80. Headed “Pacifick Christians.” Apparently a set of guiding principles for a religious society. Compare “Rules of the Dry Club” (1692), whose members must declare that they believe “no person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship” (Locke, Works, 1801, vol. 10, pp. 312–14).

      Sacerdos (1698).

      In the notebook “Adversaria 1661,” p. 93. Locke’s heading. He begins with an account of ancient religion, out of Cicero, and then turns to stress the essential character of Christianity as holy living, not ritual performances. The passage is a commentary on Pierre Bayle’s Pensées diverses (1683), §127.

      Error (1698).

      In the notebook “Adversaria 1661,” pp. 320–21. Locke’s heading. He attacks elaborate doctrinal confessions of faith, unquestioning belief, and the tyranny of orthodoxy. He affirms the priority of sincerity in belief and morality in conduct.

      Scriptures for Toleration (undated, ca. 1676–90).

      MS Locke c. 33, fol. 24. Headed “Tolerantia Pro.” A series of biblical citations that Locke takes as favoring toleration.

CHRONOLOGY OF LOCKE’S LIFE

1632	Born at Wrington, Somerset, 29 August
1642	Outbreak of the Civil Wars
1643	Troops of Col. Popham, Locke’s future patron, despoil Wells Cathedral
1645	Defeat of Charles I at Naseby by Oliver Cromwell
1647	Admitted to Westminster School, London
1648	Treaty of Westphalia ends European Thirty Years’ War
1649	Execution of Charles I; England a republic
1651	Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
1652	Elected a Student of Christ Church, Oxford
1652–67	Usually resident in Oxford
1655	Graduates as a bachelor of arts
1658	Graduates as a master of arts; death of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
1660	Restoration of monarchy under Charles II
1660–62	Writes Two Tracts on Government, against toleration (published 1967)
1661–64	Lecturer in Greek, rhetoric, and moral philosophy
1662	Act of Uniformity reimposes Anglicanism; dissenting worship illegal
1663	Attends chemical and medical lectures
1663–64	Writes Essays on the Law of Nature (published 1954)
1665–66	Embassy secretary sent to the Elector of Brandenburg at Cleves (Kleve)
1666	Licensed to practice medicine
	Granted dispensation to retain Studentship without taking holy orders
	Great Fire of London
1667	Joins Lord Ashley’s household; usually resident in London until 1675.
	Writes Essay Concerning Toleration (published 1876)
1668	Oversees lifesaving operation on Ashley
	Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
1669	Helps draft The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
1670	Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
1671	Secretary to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (until 1675)
	First drafts of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1672	Ashley created Earl of Shaftesbury and Lord Chancellor
	Appointed secretary for ecclesiastical presentations (to 1673)
	First visit to France
	Samuel Pufendorf, On the Law of Nature and Nations
1673	Secretary to the Council of Trade and Plantations (to 1674)
	Charles II’s brother and heir, James, Duke of York, converts to Catholicism
	Shaftesbury ousted from office; begins to lead opposition
1675	Shaftesburian manifesto, A Letter from a Person of Quality
	Graduates as a bachelor of medicine
	To France; chiefly resident at Montpellier until 1677; then mainly Paris
1676	Translates three of Pierre Nicole’s Essais de Morale
1677	Repeal of writ De haeretico comburendo, abolishing burning for heresy
	Andrew Marvell, An Account of the Growth of Popery
1678	Popish Plot revealed; executions of Catholics follow (to 1681)
1679	Returns to England
	Habeas Corpus Act
1679–81	Exclusion Crisis; Whigs seek to exclude Catholic heir from the throne
	Whig victory in three general elections, but Whigs outmaneuvered by the king
1680	Signs London’s “monster petition,” demanding sitting of Parliament
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