Respecting Toleration

Respecting Toleration
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780198758594
ISBN-13 : 0198758596
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Respecting Toleration by : Peter Balint

The question of toleration matters more than ever. The politics of the twenty-first century is replete with both the successes and, all too often, the failures of toleration. Yet a growing number of thinkers and practitioners have argued against toleration. Some believe that liberal democracies are better served by different principles, such as respect of, or recognition for, people's ways of life. Others argue that because the liberal state should be entirely neutral or indifferent towards people's ways of life, it can no longer be tolerant - it has no grounds on which it can object, and so there is nothing left to tolerate. Respecting Toleration provides a new, original, and provocative take on the question of toleration and its application to the politics of contemporary diversity. Peter Balint argues for both the conceptual coherence and normative desirability of toleration and neutrality. He argues that it is these principles which best realise the basic liberal good of people living their lives as they see fit, rather than appealing to principles of recognition or respect for difference. While those who criticised liberalism's failings in dealing with the claims of diversity had justification, it is the tenets of traditional liberalism that hold the answer. Respecting Toleration argues that if one cares about people living divergent lives, then it is liberal toleration that should be respected by legislators and policy makers, and not people's differences.

Toleration in Conflict

Toleration in Conflict
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : 9780521885775
ISBN-13 : 0521885779
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Toleration in Conflict by : Rainer Forst

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

Why Tolerate Religion?

Why Tolerate Religion?
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781400852345
ISBN-13 : 140085234X
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Tolerate Religion? by : Brian Leiter

Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 1174
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ISBN-10 : 3030421201
ISBN-13 : 9783030421205
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration by : Mitja Sardoč

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different concepts most commonly associated with it (e.g. respect, recognition) as well as the discussion of the many problems dominating the controversies on toleration at both the theoretical or practical level. The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration is aimed as a resource for a global scholarly audience looking for either a detailed presentation of major accounts of toleration, the most important conceptual issues associated with toleration and the many problems dividing either scholars, policy-makers or practitioners.

The Politics and Ethics of Toleration

The Politics and Ethics of Toleration
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9781000425185
ISBN-13 : 1000425185
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics and Ethics of Toleration by : Johannes Drerup

Toleration plays a key role in liberal thought. This book explores our current understanding of toleration in liberal theory and practice. Toleration has traditionally been characterized as the willingness to put up with others or their actions or practices despite the fact that one considers them as objectionable. Toleration has thus been regarded as one of the core aspects of liberalism: as an indispensable democratic virtue and as a constitutive part of liberal political practice. In modern liberal societies, where deep disagreements about social values and ways of life are widespread, toleration still seems to be of crucial importance. However, contemporary debates on toleration cover an immense variety of theoretical and political issues ranging from controversies over its exact understanding and conceptual scope as well as its practical boundaries, e.g., regarding freedom of expression or the legitimate role of religious symbols in educational institutions. The contributions to this volume take up a number of carefully selected key questions and problems emerging from these ongoing theoretical and political controversies in order to explore and shed new light on pivotal conflicts and tensions that pervade different conceptions of toleration. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Spaces of Tolerance

Spaces of Tolerance
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9781000712919
ISBN-13 : 1000712915
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Spaces of Tolerance by : Luiza Bialasiewicz

This book offers interdisciplinary and cross-national perspectives on the challenges of negotiating the contours of religious tolerance in Europe. In today’s Europe, religions and religious individuals are increasingly framed as both an internal and external security threat. This is evident in controls over the activities of foreign preachers but also, more broadly, in EU states’ management of migration flows, marked by questions regarding the religious background of migrating non-European Others. This book addresses such shifts directly by examining how understandings of religious freedom touch down in actual contexts, places, and practices across Europe, offering multidisciplinary insights from leading thinkers from political theory, political philosophy, anthropology, and geography. The volume thus aims to ground ideal liberal democratic theory and, at the same time, to bring normative reflection to grounded, ethnographic analyses of religious practices. Such ‘grounded’ understandings matter, for they speak to how religions and religious difference are encountered in specific places. They especially matter in a European context where religion and religious difference are increasingly not just securitised but made the object of violent attacks. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, philosophy, geography, religious studies, and the sociology and anthropology of religion.

Our Dear-Bought Liberty

Our Dear-Bought Liberty
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780674247239
ISBN-13 : 067424723X
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Dear-Bought Liberty by : Michael D. Breidenbach

How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.

Toleration as Recognition

Toleration as Recognition
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781139432511
ISBN-13 : 1139432516
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Toleration as Recognition by : Anna Elisabetta Galeotti

In this 2002 book, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti examines the most intractable problems which toleration encounters and argues that what is really at stake is not religious or moral disagreement but the unequal status of different social groups. Liberal theories of toleration fail to grasp this and consequently come up with normative solutions that are inadequate when confronted with controversial cases. Galeotti proposes, as an alternative, toleration as recognition, which addresses the problem of according equal respect to groups as well as equal liberty to individuals. She offers an interpretation that is both a revision and an expansion of liberal theory, in which toleration constitutes an important component not only of a theory of justice, but also of the politics of identity. Her study will appeal to a wide range of readers in political philosophy, political theory, and law.

Toleration and Other Essays

Toleration and Other Essays
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015001428914
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Synopsis Toleration and Other Essays by : Voltaire

The Difficulty of Tolerance

The Difficulty of Tolerance
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 0521533988
ISBN-13 : 9780521533980
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Difficulty of Tolerance by : Thomas Scanlon

These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.