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Mere Civility

Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration

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Publication Date: 01/02/2017

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  • Citations and Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Wars of Words
  • 1. “Persecution of the Tongue”: Toleration and the Rise of Religious Insult
  • 2. “Silver Alarums”: Roger Williams’s Mere Civility
  • 3. “If It Be without Contention”: Hobbes and Civil Silence
  • 4. “A Bond of Mutual Charity”: Locke and the Quest for Concord
  • Conclusion: The Virtue of Mere Civility
  • Epilogue: Free Speech Fundamentalism
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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