Kyle Harrison
to-read
A Letter Concerning Toleration
- Author
- John Locke
- Published
- 1689
- Recommended
- 3 times
Why it’s on the list: Locke’s case that belief cannot be compelled, and therefore that the magistrate has no business compelling it. Short — a long pamphlet.
Where I heard about it
- Peter Savodnik — his April 2026 post telling readers to work through Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau: “To start.”
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, under Renaissance and Enlightenment Political Thought.
- University of Austin — assigned in Modernity and the West on its Fall 2025 reading list, in a combined volume with Two Treatises of Government.
Connections
- John Locke — from the same canon list.
- Religious Freedom — from the same canon list.
- UATX Fall Reading List — assigned again in the University of Austin’s “Modernity and the West” course, in a combined volume with Two Treatises of Government.