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AutoreLanzillo  Maria Laura
TitoloVoltaire. La tolleranza dalla morale alla politica
RivistaHumanitas
Annata69
Fasc.6
Anno2014
Pagine978-990
Campo TematicoInterculturalitą
Parole Chiave
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 theorize 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 cornerstone: the structure of fanaticism and of religious persecution ? cause, in his eye, of obscurantism and political-institutional inefficiency of the ancien regime -, the cultural and civil progress of society.
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