After his return to England, he published his first Letter Concerning Toleration. In 1690, he published his most famous work, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Also the Two Treatises on Government and the second of four Letters Concerning Toleration. ... These were called "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." ... This topic is still being debated by philosophers today. ...
In England in the 17th century, during the Great Rebellion, Englishmen in the New Model Army of Parliament began to debate liberal ideas concerning extension of the suffrage, parliamentary rule, the responsibilities of government, and freedom of conscience. ... By the middle of the 19th century, liberal thought concerning constitutionalism, wider suffrage, toleration of dissent, absence of arbitrariness, and policies designed to promote happiness had acquired powerful advocates in Britain and other European countries and in the United States. ...
Colonists struggled with their consciences and debated their own authority. ... Contrarians debated whether this was the correct interpretation, or was the Bible really referring only to authorities that were living and ruling in a fair and humane manner? ... Whether their submission should be absolute was subject to debate and created division between the Colonists. ... In 1750, Reverend Jonathan Mayhew, in his Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission, concluded that only those rulers who were serving in the best interest of the people deserve infinite respect and obedience. ...
Federalist No. 10 by James Madison explains, "A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders have, in turn, divided mankind into parties" (Madison). ... When large groups debate and deliberate together they make rational decisions more often than individuals, even if it does take time, through the process of pluralism. ...
The sight of a group of people obviously debating some urgent issue would have already given me the signal to switch the channel but the pleading tone of one of the guests made me pause. ... Because anything concerning complicated political jargon and nausea-inducing financial talk bores us to death. ...
