PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rationality
29 Mar 2017
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Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media communication; Toleration: allow the existence of something, accepting it without interference. Religion: belief in and worship of some controlling power. Because a religious belief, as such, can neither be commanded by law, nor the failure to adopt such a belief punished by law . Locke: civil power, right and dominion, is bounded and confined to the only care of promoting these things (viz. Civil interests i call life, liberty, health, and indolency of. Body) and that it neither can nor ought in any manner to be extended to the salvation of souls (143) The state should only concern itself with securing and preserving civil interests. That is, the power of the state should be limited to securing fundamental and universal formal rights and freedoms and not determining the incidental and particular content of such rights and freedoms.
