Toleration in conflict : past and present /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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Cambridge University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Ideas in context.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 635 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-618) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139615457 1139615459 9781139624756 113962475X 9781139051200 1139051202 1283899337 9781283899338 9781139611732 1139611739 1107233747 9781107233744 1139609874 9781139609876 1139608398 9781139608398 1139621033 9781139621038 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
