Toleration And Its Limits

Author : Melissa S. Williams,Jeremy Waldron
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780814794593

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Toleration has a rich tradition in Western political philosophy. It is, after all, one of the defining topics of political philosophy—historically pivotal in the development of modern liberalism, prominent in the writings of such canonical figures as John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and central to our understanding of the idea of a society in which individuals have the right to live their own lives by their own values, left alone by the state so long as they respect the similar interests of others. Toleration and Its Limits, the latest addition to the NOMOS series, explores the philosophical nuances of the concept of toleration and its scope in contemporary liberal democratic societies. Editors Melissa S. Williams and Jeremy Waldron carefully compiled essays that address the tradition’s key historical figures; its role in the development and evolution of Western political theory; its relation to morality, liberalism, and identity; and its limits and dangers. Contributors: Lawrence A. Alexander, Kathryn Abrams, Wendy Brown, Ingrid Creppell, Noah Feldman, Rainer Forst, David Heyd, Glyn Morgan, Glen Newey, Michael A. Rosenthal, Andrew Sabl, Steven D. Smith, and Alex Tuckness.

Author : Denis Lacorne
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231547048

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The Limits of Tolerance by Denis Lacorne Pdf

The modern notion of tolerance—the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good—emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is increasingly being challenged by frightened publics. In this book, Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. In a wide-ranging argument that spans the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian republic, and recent controversies such as France’s burqa ban and the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, The Limits of Tolerance probes crucial questions: Should we impose limits on freedom of expression in the name of human dignity or decency? Should we accept religious symbols in the public square? Can we tolerate the intolerant? While acknowledging that tolerance can never be entirely without limits, Lacorne defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive. Awarded the Prix Montyon by the Académie Française, The Limits of Tolerance is a powerful reflection on twenty-first-century democracy’s most fundamental challenges.

Author : Melissa S. Williams,Jeremy Waldron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religious tolerance
ISBN : OCLC:1040884531

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Author : Susan Mendus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 0333404068

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Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism by Susan Mendus Pdf

A discussion of John Locke's Letter of Toleration and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is followed by an analysis of the concept of toleration, exploring its relationship to other central concepts in political thought and an attempt to respond to some important problems concerning toleration.

Author : Alfred Stepan,Charles Taylor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231165662

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Boundaries of Toleration by Alfred Stepan,Charles Taylor Pdf

How can people of diverse religious, historical, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? Western civilization has long understood this dilemma as a question of toleration, yet the logic of toleration and the logic of multicultural rights entrenchment are two very different things. In this volume, contributors suggest we also think beyond toleration to mutual respect, practiced before the creation of modern multiculturalism in the West. Salman Rushdie reflects on the once mutually tolerant Sufi-Hindu culture of Kashmir. Ira Katznelson follows with an intellectual history of toleration as a layered institution in the West and councils against assuming we have transcended the need for such tolerance. Charles Taylor advances a new approach to secularism in our multicultural world, and Akeel Bilgrami responds by urging caution against making it difficult to condemn or make illegal dangerous forms of intolerance. The political theorist Nadia Urbanati explores why the West did not pursue Cicero’s humanist ideal of concord as a response to religious discord. The volume concludes with a refutation of the claim that toleration was invented in the West and is alien to non-Western cultures.

Author : Teresa M. Bejan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674545496

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Mere Civility by Teresa M. Bejan Pdf

In liberal democracies committed to tolerating diversity as well as disagreement, the loss of civility in the public sphere seems critical. But is civility really a virtue, or a demand for conformity that silences dissent? Teresa Bejan looks at early modern debates about religious toleration for answers about what a civil society should look like.

Author : Andrew Jason Cohen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745681047

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Toleration by Andrew Jason Cohen Pdf

In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration? What should be tolerated? Why is toleration important? Beginning with some key insights into what we mean by toleration, Cohen goes on to investigate what should be tolerated and why. We should not be free to do everythingÑmurder, rape, and theft, for clear examples, should not be tolerated. But should we be free to take drugs, hire a prostitute, or kill ourselves? Should our governments outlaw such activities or tolerate them? Should they tolerate “outsourcing” of jobs or importing of goods or put embargos on other countries? Cohen examines these difficult questions, among others, and argues that we should look to principles of toleration to guide our answers. These principles tell us when limiting freedom is acceptableÑthat is, they indicate the proper limits of toleration. Cohen deftly explains the main principles on offer and indicates why one of these stands out from the rest. This wide-ranging new book on an important topic will be essential reading for students taking courses in philosophy, political science and religious studies.

Author : Susan Mendus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : UOM:39015014730702

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Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism by Susan Mendus Pdf

A discussion of John Locke's "Letter of Toleration" and John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" is followed by an analysis of the concept of toleration, exploring its relationship to other central concepts in political thought and an attempt to respond to some important problems concerning toleration.

Author : Jesse Spohnholz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611490343

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The Tactics of Toleration by Jesse Spohnholz Pdf

Introduction : religious toleration and the Reformation of the refugees -- Religious refugees and the rise of confessional tensions -- Calvinist discipline and the boundaries of religious toleration -- The strained hospitality of the Lutheran community -- Surviving dissent : Mennonites and Catholics in Wesel -- The practice of toleration : religious life in Reformation-era Wesel.

Author : C.S. Adcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199995448

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The Limits of Tolerance by C.S. Adcock Pdf

This book provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance. Examining debates surrounding the activities of the Arya Samaj - a Hindu reform organization regarded as the exemplar of intolerance - it finds that Tolerance functioned to disengage Indian secularism from the politics of caste.

Author : Rainer Forst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521885775

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Toleration in Conflict by Rainer Forst Pdf

This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.

Author : Alan Jay Levinovitz
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781943208050

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The Limits of Religious Tolerance by Alan Jay Levinovitz Pdf

Religion’s place in American public life has never been fixed. As new communities have arrived, as old traditions have fractured and reformed, as cultural norms have been shaped by shifting economic structures and the advance of science, and as new faith traditions have expanded the range of religious confessions within America’s religious landscape, the claims posited by religious faiths—and the respect such claims may demand—have been subjects of near-constant change. In The Limits of Religious Tolerance, Alan Jay Levinovitz pushes against the widely held (and often unexamined) notion that unbounded tolerance must and should be accorded to claims forwarded on the basis of religious belief in a society increasingly characterized by religious pluralism. Pressing at the distinction between tolerance and respect, Levinovitz seeks to offer a set of guideposts by which a democratic society could identify and observe a set of limits beyond which religiously grounded claims may legitimately be denied the expectation of unqualified non-interference.

Author : American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Meeting
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780814794111

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Author : Robert Green Ingersoll,Frederic René Coudert,Stewart Lyndon Woodford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Free thought
ISBN : OCLC:29286102

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The Limits of Toleration by Robert Green Ingersoll,Frederic René Coudert,Stewart Lyndon Woodford Pdf

Author : David Heyd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400822010

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Toleration by David Heyd Pdf

If we are to understand the concept of toleration in terms of everyday life, we must address a key philosophical and political tension: the call for restraint when encountering apparently wrong beliefs and actions versus the good reasons for interfering with the lives of the subjects of these beliefs and actions. This collection contains original contributions to the ongoing debate on the nature of toleration, including its definition, historical development, justification, and limits. In exploring the issues surrounding toleration, the essays address a variety of provocative questions. Is toleration a moral virtue of individuals or rather a pragmatic political compromise? Is it an intrinsically good principle or only a "second best-solution" to the dangers of fanaticism to be superseded one day by the full acceptance of others? Does the value of toleration lie in respect to individuals and their autonomy, or rather in the recognition of the right of minority groups to maintain their communal identity? Throughout, the contributors point to the inherent indeterminacy of the concept and to the difficulty in locating it between intolerant absolutism and skeptical pluralism. Religion, sex, speech, and education are major areas requiring toleration in liberal societies. By applying theoretical analysis, these essays show the differences in the argument for toleration and its scope in each of these realms. The contributors include Joshua Cohen, George Fletcher, Gordon Graham, Alon Harel, Moshe Halbertal, Barbara Herman, John Horton, Will Kymlicka, Avishai Margalit, David Richards, Thomas Scanlon, and Bernard Williams.