Considering Robinson Crusoe's "Liberty of Conscience" in an Age of Terror
Brian C. Cooney

Robinson Crusoe demonstrates that John Locke’s principle of tolerance actually entails exclusions, for Crusoe ultimately destroys the cannibals to protect his supposedly liberal order.  This paradox has implications for the current war in Iraq, where the United States government invokes the ideal of freedom while insisting on its own particular vision of democracy. 

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