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True Tolerance - Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment (Paperback, New edition)
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True Tolerance - Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment (Paperback, New edition)
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In contemporary liberal thought, "tolerance" has come to be
redefined as a synonym for ethical neutrality: refusal to judge
among competing views of goods and evils. The result of this
extreme relativism has been a foundations crisis in law, politics,
education, and other areas of social life. In this lucidly written
and brilliantly argued volume, J. Budziszewski attempts to reserve
the self-destruction of modern liberalism by showing that true
tolerance is not only consistent with taking stands about objective
goods and evils, but actually requires doing so. Tolerance, falsely
understood as ethical neutrality, has the paradoxical effect of
crippling policy choice by divesting it of the moral and practical
framework on which it depends. By painstakingly and exhaustively
dissecting each of the many neutralist arguments, Budziszewski
demonstrates that real neutrality is logically impossible.
Confronted by alternative views, the neutralist at best obscures
his own underlying judgments, and at worst abandons all possible
defense against fanatics who oppose both true equality and true
tolerance. "True Tolerance" is both a rigorous critique, and a
polemic undertaken in the name of a positive, twenty-first century
vision of liberalism. Budziszewsky outlines a view of true
tolerance that assumes a relationship with an older liberal
tradition and a codependence with other virtues, including
humility, mercy, charity, respect, and courtesy. This vision is
rooted in historical experience and rational conviction about what
is good. In the spirit of liberal and classical theorists of virtue
from Aristotle to John Locke to Alasdair MacIntyre, the virtue of
true tolerance is much more than a readiness to follow known rules;
it includes a developed ability to distinguish good rules from bad,
and to choose rightly even where there are no rules or where rules
seem to contradict each other. Accessibly written and intended for
a wide readership, True Tolerance will be of special interest to
political theorists and activists, and to sociologists and
philosophers.
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