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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.
This volume responds to the growing interest in finding
explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on
what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that
question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle
"ought implies can." Though both of these ideas can be understood
to provide an answer to the same question, they have usually been
discussed separately in the philosophical literature. The aim of
this collection is to provide a focused and comprehensive
discussion of these two ideas and the ways in which they relate to
one another, and to take a closer look at the consequences for the
limits of moral normativity in general. Chapters engage with
contemporary discussions surrounding "ought implies can" as well as
current debates on moral demandingness, and argue that applying the
moral demandingness objection to the entire range of normative
ethical theories also calls for an analysis of its (metaethical)
presuppositions. The contributions to this volume are at the
leading edge of ethical theory, and have implications for moral
theorists, philosophers of action, and those working in metaethics,
theoretical ethics and applied ethics.
This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and
promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative
care and end-of-life decisions. These cases pose specific
epistemic, normative, and practical problems, and the book
elucidates the connection between the practical implications of the
theoretical debate on respecting autonomy, on the one hand, and
specific questions and challenges that arise in medical practice,
on the other hand. Given that the idea of personal autonomy
includes the notion of authenticity as one of its core components,
the book explicitly includes discussions on underlying theories of
the self. In doing so, it brings together original contributions
and novel insights for "applied" scenarios based on
interdisciplinary collaboration between German and Serbian scholars
from philosophy, sociology, and law. It is of benefit to anyone
cherishing autonomy in medical ethics and medical practice.
This book engages in a critical discussion on how to respect and
promote patients' autonomy in difficult cases such as palliative
care and end-of-life decisions. These cases pose specific
epistemic, normative, and practical problems, and the book
elucidates the connection between the practical implications of the
theoretical debate on respecting autonomy, on the one hand, and
specific questions and challenges that arise in medical practice,
on the other hand. Given that the idea of personal autonomy
includes the notion of authenticity as one of its core components,
the book explicitly includes discussions on underlying theories of
the self. In doing so, it brings together original contributions
and novel insights for "applied" scenarios based on
interdisciplinary collaboration between German and Serbian scholars
from philosophy, sociology, and law. It is of benefit to anyone
cherishing autonomy in medical ethics and medical practice.
This volume addresses the complex interplay between the
conditions of an agent's personal autonomy and the constitution of
her self in light of two influential background assumptions: a
libertarian thesis according to which it is essential for personal
autonomy to be able to choose freely how one's self is shaped, on
the one hand, and a line of thought following especially the
seminal work of Harry Frankfurt according to which personal
autonomy necessarily rests on an already sufficiently shaped self,
on the other hand. Given this conceptual framework, a number of
influential aspects within current debate can be addressed in a new
and illuminating light: accordingly, the volume's contributions
range from 1) discussing fundamental conceptual interconnections
between personal autonomy and freedom of the will, 2) addressing
the exact role and understanding of different personal traits, e.g.
Frankfurt's notion of volitional necessities, commitments to norms
and ideals, emotions, the phenomenon of weakness of will, and
psychocorporeal aspects, 3) and finally taking into account social
influences, which are discussed in terms of their ability to
buttress, to weaken, or even to serve as necessary preconditions of
personal autonomy and the forming of one's self. The volume thus
provides readers with an extensive and most up-to-date discussion
of various influential strands of current philosophical debate on
the topic. It is of equal interest to all those already engaged in
the debate as well as to readers trying to get an up-to-date
overview or looking for a textbook to use in courses.
This volume addresses the complex interplay between the conditions
of an agent's personal autonomy and the constitution of her self in
light of two influential background assumptions: a libertarian
thesis according to which it is essential for personal autonomy to
be able to choose freely how one's self is shaped, on the one hand,
and a line of thought following especially the seminal work of
Harry Frankfurt according to which personal autonomy necessarily
rests on an already sufficiently shaped self, on the other hand.
Given this conceptual framework, a number of influential aspects
within current debate can be addressed in a new and illuminating
light: accordingly, the volume's contributions range from 1)
discussing fundamental conceptual interconnections between personal
autonomy and freedom of the will, 2) addressing the exact role and
understanding of different personal traits, e.g. Frankfurt's notion
of volitional necessities, commitments to norms and ideals,
emotions, the phenomenon of weakness of will, and psychocorporeal
aspects, 3) and finally taking into account social influences,
which are discussed in terms of their ability to buttress, to
weaken, or even to serve as necessary preconditions of personal
autonomy and the forming of one's self. The volume thus provides
readers with an extensive and most up-to-date discussion of various
influential strands of current philosophical debate on the topic.
It is of equal interest to all those already engaged in the debate
as well as to readers trying to get an up-to-date overview or
looking for a textbook to use in courses.
This volume responds to the growing interest in finding
explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on
what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that
question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle
"ought implies can." Though both of these ideas can be understood
to provide an answer to the same question, they have usually been
discussed separately in the philosophical literature. The aim of
this collection is to provide a focused and comprehensive
discussion of these two ideas and the ways in which they relate to
one another, and to take a closer look at the consequences for the
limits of moral normativity in general. Chapters engage with
contemporary discussions surrounding "ought implies can" as well as
current debates on moral demandingness, and argue that applying the
moral demandingness objection to the entire range of normative
ethical theories also calls for an analysis of its (metaethical)
presuppositions. The contributions to this volume are at the
leading edge of ethical theory, and have implications for moral
theorists, philosophers of action, and those working in metaethics,
theoretical ethics and applied ethics.
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