Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Mendieta, Eduardo | de Laurentiis, Allegra | Edwards, Jeffrey | Israel, Jonathan.
Date
2012-05-01
Keywords
Philosophy | Spinoza, Toleration
Department
Department of Philosophy
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71498
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Today, the concepts "toleration" and "pluralism" are generally taken to be synonymous. Yet Baruch Spinoza's rationalist political philosophy outlined a conception of positive liberty, as well as a robust doctrine of toleration, which grew out of a monistic metaphysics instead. Endorsing this view, this dissertation aims at demonstrating the conceptual connection between substance monism and political toleration. Apart from this historical and conceptual investigation into Early Modern political thought, this dissertation also examines the 20th century critics of monism and rationalist politics by self-avowed pluralists. | 474 pages
Recommended Citation
Frim, David Landon, "Monism, Pluralism, and the Politics of Toleration: An Analysis of Spinoza's Rationalist Political Philosophy and its 20th Century Critics" (2012). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 704.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/704