Toleration in conflict : past and present

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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Main Author: Forst, Rainer, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Series:Ideas in context.
Subjects:
Toleration > History.
Religious tolerance.
Toleration > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Toleration: concept and conceptions
  • More than a prehistory: antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • Reconciliation, schism, peace: humanism and the Reformation
  • Toleration and sovereignty: political and individual
  • Natural law, toleration and revolution: the rise of liberalism and the aporias of freedom of conscience
  • The Enlightenment
  • for and against toleration
  • Toleration in the modern period
  • Routes to toleration
  • The justification of toleration
  • The finitude of reason
  • The virtue of tolerance
  • The tolerant society.

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