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Tolerance and Modern Liberalism - From Paradox to Aretaic Moral Ideal (Hardcover)
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Tolerance and Modern Liberalism - From Paradox to Aretaic Moral Ideal (Hardcover)
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Modern liberal societies are submerged in conflict and
disagreement. People disagree about almost everything-not only
about matters of justice, but also about issues that are more
private. They disagree on how to interpret freedom and equality;
they disagree and even experience conflict with issues regarding
the use of a veil, or children wearing crucifixes in public spaces;
they also enter into conflict and disagreement regarding issues
such as homosexuality, extramarital sex, drugs, euthanasia,
abortion, suicide, and experimentation on animals. All these issues
can be understood as moral problems, but we also have disagreements
concerning other topics that are unrelated to moral issues. For
modern liberals, the existence of such conflicts is due to the
possibility of people, bearing the right to disagree, expressing
themselves in a free and equal way. This freedom is indeed one of
the biggest triumphs in the history of liberalism: many societies
have come to be constituted by autonomous and free individuals who
have the capacity to choose their lives and the values that will
guide them. In the middle of this panorama, tolerance plays an
extremely important role for liberal thinking. Without tolerance,
disagreements and conflicts will hardly coexist or be resolved in a
peaceful manner. Liberals say that despite the fact that there is a
plurality of values and diversity within the different lifestyles,
we should tolerate all those who do not agree with our own values.
On this view, tolerance becomes a key element for the flourishing
and progression of moral life. Yet, liberals should ask themselves:
is modern liberalism's structure of practical reason compatible
with the moral ideal of tolerance? Rene Gonzalez de la Vega argues
that liberal deontological theories cannot give proper answers to
the main problems raised by the moral ideal of tolerance. Tolerance
and Modern Liberalism: From Paradox to Aretaic Moral Ideal will be
of interest to students and scholars of political and moral
philosophy, political theory, and law, including those who focus on
human rights and on deontological liberalism.
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