Locke on knowledge. Anstey, politics and religion : new interpretations from Japan

Locke scholarship has been flourishing in Japan for several decades, but its output is largely unknown to the West. This collection makes available in English for the first time the fruits of recent Japanese research, opening up the possibility of advancing Locke studies on an international scale. Covering three important areas of Locke’s philosophical thought – knowledge and experimental method, law and politics, and religion and toleration – this volume criticizes established interpretations and replaces them with novel alternatives, breaking away from standard narratives and providing fresh ways of looking at Locke’s relationship with philosophers such as Boyle, Berkeley and Hume. The specific topics that have been selected are ones that continue to have important contemporary moral and political implications, from constitutionalism and toleration to marriage and the death penalty. Applying Locke’s views to 21st-century questions, this collection presents provocative readings of the defining aspects of Locke’s philosophical thought, stimulating current debates and heralding a new era of collaborative work for Locke scholars around the world. "Locke scholarship has been flourishing in Japan for several decades, but its outputs are largely unknown and inaccessible to the West. In this collection the fruits of recent Japanese research is made available in English for the first time, opening up the possibility of advancing Locke studies on an international scale. Covering three important areas of Locke's philosophical thought - knowledge and experimental method, law and politics, and religion and toleration - each chapter criticizes established interpretations and replaces them with novel alternatives, breaking away from standard narratives and providing fresh ways of looking at his relationship with thinkers such as Boyle, Berkeley and Hume. Contributors select topics that continue to have important contemporary moral and political implications, from constitutionalism and tolerationism to marriage and the death penalty. Applying Locke's views to 21st-century questions about society, they present provocative readings of the defining aspects of Locke's philosophical thought, stimulating current debates and heralding a new era of collaborative work for Locke scholars around the world"-- Provided by publisher Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Locke and Japan Part I: Knowledge and experimental method Chapter 1: Locke and non-propositional knowledge Chapter 2: Boyle and Locke on primary and secondary qualities: A reappraisal Chapter 3: Berkeley’s experimental method in An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision Part II: Law and politics Chapter 4: A defence of Locke’s consent theory against Hume’s critique Chapter 5: Locke’s political constitutionalism: A re-examination of his idea of the prerogative Chapter 6: The death penalty and a Lockean impossibilism Part III: Religion and toleration Chapter 7: Locke’s harm argument and the largeness of toleration Chapter 8: Salvation and reasonableness in Locke’s Reasonableness of Christianity Chapter 9: Locke on sex, marriage and the state Index