Toleration A Critical Introduction

Name: Toleration A Critical Introduction
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ISBN: 9780415322904

ISBN-10: 0415322901

ISBN-13: 9780415322904

Edition: 2004

Authors: Catriona McKinnon

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Why should we be tolerant? What does it mean to "live and let live"? What ought to be tolerated and what not? br br i Toleration: A Critical Introduction /i is a comprehensive and accessible philosophical introduction to toleration. The first part of the book clearly and coherently introduces and assesses the major theoretical accounts of toleration, examining toleration in light of challenges from skepticism, value pluralism and reasonableness. Catriona McKinnon also draws from those philosophers whose theories are central to toleration, from Locke and Mill to Rawls. br br In the second part of the book, McKinnon applies the theories of toleration to urgent contemporary problems such as…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgements






Toleration: a call to arms



Opposition and restraint



Toleration from scepticism



Toleration from value pluralism



Toleration from reasonableness



Political harm: the liberal paradigm






Culture and citizenship: headscarves and circumcision



Artistic expression



Pornography and censorship



Holocaust denial



Conclusion: new challenges for liberal toleration


Notes


Bibliography


Index