ISBN:
9789401702416
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 188 p)
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online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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Keywords:
Philosophy of law
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Social sciences Methodology
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Social sciences
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Political science.
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Law—Philosophy.
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Sociology—Methodology.
Abstract:
The first part of this collection traces the passage of toleration from a moral to a political virtue, which may contribute to avoid such a paradox. Political toleration asks not that people accept the reasons or actions of others, to whom they may strongly object, but rather that they reassess and revise their own reasons for opposition and repression in the light of public reason. Such a shift to the political perspective brings, however, new theoretical and institutional problems relating in particular to the nature of political neutrality and the working of democratic institutions. The second and third parts of the volume attempt to clarify the terms of the debate on political toleration. The book brings together a group of international scholars, many of whom have already contributed to the debate on toleration, and who are offering fresh thoughts and approaches to it. The essays of this collection are written from a variety of perspectives: historical, analytical, normative, and legal. Yet, all authors share a concern with the sharpening of our understanding of the reasons for toleration as well as with making them relevant to the way in which we live with others in our modern and diverse societies
Description / Table of Contents:
I: Toleration: Moral and Political1. Tolerance as a Primary Virtue -- 2. Montaigne: The Embodiment of Identity as Grounds for Toleration -- 3. Is Toleration a Moral Virtue? -- II: Toleration and Neutrality -- 4. Neutrality and the Virtue of Toleration -- 5. Toleration and Neutrality: Incompatible Ideals? -- 6. Toleration and Neutrality: Compatible Ideals? -- 7. Neutrality, Toleration, and Reasonable Agreement -- 8. John Stuart Mill as a Theorist of Toleration -- III: Toleration and Democracy -- 9. Is a Tolerant Democracy a Rubber Duck? -- 10. The Enforcement of Toleration -- 11. The Fraught Relation Between Toleration and Democracy -- Appendix: Reply to Jones.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-017-0241-6
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