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Toleration in Conflict - Past and Present (Paperback)
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Toleration in Conflict - Past and Present (Paperback)
Series: Ideas in Context
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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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