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Toleration in Comparative Perspective is a collection of essays
that explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and
the West. It tests the common assumption in Western political
discourse and contemporary political theory that toleration is a
uniquely Western virtue. Toleration in modern Western philosophy is
understood as principled noninterference in the practices and
beliefs of others that one disapproves of or, at least, dislikes.
Although toleration might be seen today as a quintessential liberal
value, precedents to this modern concept also existed in medieval
times while Indigenous American stories about welcome challenge the
very possibility of noninterference. The modern Western
philosophical concept of toleration is not always easily translated
into other philosophical traditions, but this book opens a dialogue
between various traditions of thought to explore precisely the ways
in which overlap and distinctions exist. What emerges is the
existence of a family of resemblances in approaches to religious
and cultural diversity from a program of pragmatic noninterference
in the Ottoman Empire to deeper notions of acceptance and
inclusiveness amongst the Newar People in the Kathmandu Valley. The
development of an Islamic ethic of tolerance, the Daoist idea of
all-inclusiveness, and Confucian ideas of broad-mindedness,
respect, and coexistence to the idea of 'the one in the many' in
Hindu thought are examined along with sources for intolerance,
tolerance, and toleration in Pali Buddhism, early modern Japan, and
contemporary India.
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