The aim of the essay is to show that the concept of religious tolerance, on which Voltaire reflected from the 1730s until his death, undergoes a radical conceptual turn thanks to the French philosophe as compared to the previous debate (suffice to think of the notion of tolerance theorized by Bodin, or the ideas set forth by Locke and the English Deists) and becomes a theoretical junction for an original reflection on reform policies. The thought on tolerance is instrumental, for Voltaire, in developing a new idea of political space, built on three cornerstones, the structure of politics (the State based on the guarantee of the law), the rejection of fanaticism and of religious persecution - cause, in his eye, of obscurantism and political-institutional inefficiency of the ancien régime -, the cultural and civil progress of society.
Voltaire. La tolleranza dalla morale alla politica
LANZILLO, MARIA LAURA
2014
Abstract
The aim of the essay is to show that the concept of religious tolerance, on which Voltaire reflected from the 1730s until his death, undergoes a radical conceptual turn thanks to the French philosophe as compared to the previous debate (suffice to think of the notion of tolerance theorized by Bodin, or the ideas set forth by Locke and the English Deists) and becomes a theoretical junction for an original reflection on reform policies. The thought on tolerance is instrumental, for Voltaire, in developing a new idea of political space, built on three cornerstones, the structure of politics (the State based on the guarantee of the law), the rejection of fanaticism and of religious persecution - cause, in his eye, of obscurantism and political-institutional inefficiency of the ancien régime -, the cultural and civil progress of society.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.