Heyd Toleration

An Elusive Virtue
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2201-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

If we are to understand the concept of toleration in terms of everyday life, we must address a key philosophical and political tension: the call for restraint when encountering apparently wrong beliefs and actions versus the good reasons for interfering with the lives of the subjects of these beliefs and actions. This collection contains original contributions to the ongoing debate on the nature of toleration, including its definition, historical development, justification, and limits. In exploring the issues surrounding toleration, the essays address a variety of provocative questions. Is toleration a moral virtue of individuals or rather a pragmatic political compromise? Is it an intrinsically good principle or only a "second best-solution" to the dangers of fanaticism to be superseded one day by the full acceptance of others? Does the value of toleration lie in respect to individuals and their autonomy, or rather in the recognition of the right of minority groups to maintain their communal identity? Throughout, the contributors point to the inherent indeterminacy of the concept and to the difficulty in locating it between intolerant absolutism and skeptical pluralism.

Religion, sex, speech, and education are major areas requiring toleration in liberal societies. By applying theoretical analysis, these essays show the differences in the argument for toleration and its scope in each of these realms. The contributors include Joshua Cohen, George Fletcher, Gordon Graham, Alon Harel, Moshe Halbertal, Barbara Herman, John Horton, Will Kymlicka, Avishai Margalit, David Richards, Thomas Scanlon, and Bernard Williams.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heyd, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction 3

1 Toleration: An Impossible Virtue? 18

2 Toleration as a Virtue 28

3 Tolerance, Pluralism, and Relativism 44

4 Pluralism and the Community of Moral Judgment 60

5 Two Models of Pluralism and Tolerance 81

6 Autonomy, Toleration, and Group Rights: A Response to Will Kymlicka 106

7 The Boundaries of Justifiable Tolerance: A Liberal Perspective 114

8 Toleration and the Struggle against Prejudice 127

9 The Ring: On Religious Pluralism 147

10 The Instability of Tolerance 158

11 Freedom of Expression 173

12 The Difficulty of Tolerance 226

Index of Names and Cases 241

Über Autor(innen)

David Heyd is Professor of Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People and Supererogation: Its Status in Ethical Theory.