Spinoza, Locke and Reasoning for Toleration and Liberty

The subject of this article is to deliberate Locke and Spinoza’s arguments for liberty and toleration. In order to achieve this, first i have defined and clarified the two main concepts of this project; toleration and liberty. Then I have discussed the context which causes initiation of defending toleration and liberty in modern ages while discussing the defending theories for religious and political violence in brief. After these, Spinoza’s arguments supporting for toleration and liberty are presented in detail and next, John Lock’s arguments are expressed. In the end, the regard of these two philosophers’ arguments defending toleration and liberty alongside the arguments defending religious and political violence has been deliberated. I have tried to show that which argument defending toleration takedown which principle defending religious or political violence.