Toleration in conflict: past and present

The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict - that is, in continuing dissension. A critic...

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Main Author: Forst, Rainer 1964- (Author)
Other Authors: Cronin, Ciaran 1961- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Series:Ideas in context 103
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Summary:The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict - that is, in continuing dissension. A critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself stands in conflict. For some, toleration was and is an expression of mutual respect in spite of far-reaching differences, for others, a condescending, potentially repressive attitude and practice. Rainer Forst analyses these conflicts by reconstructing the philosophical and political discourse of toleration since antiquity. He demonstrates the diversity of the justifications and practices of toleration from the Stoics and early Christians to the present day and develops a systematic theory which he tests in discussions of contemporary conflicts over toleration
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 635 pages)
ISBN:9781139051200
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139051200

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