The Coerced Conscience, written by Gais Amy.
The main focus of this study is the complex and contested nature of liberty of conscience in liberal political thought, as explored through the intellectual history of seventeenth-century thinkers John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, and Pierre Bayle. The author argues that these foundational...
| Publicado en: | Hobbes Studies Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 88 - 94 |
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| Formato: | Book Review |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2026
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