How far Should Tolerance go?
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How far Should Tolerance go?

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How far Should Tolerance go?

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What are the limits of tolerance in constitutional or liberal democracies today? This is a crucial question, for if there were no limits to tolerance, it would ultimately destroy itself by accepting the intolerable. The concept of tolerance has to be assessed from a political point of view, thus questioning to what extent its potential achievement does not suppose any moral mutation in humanity. For instance, if people were all already 'virtuous' according to a commonly held moral framework, there would be simply no need to speak of tolerance. Conversely, if it were the case that people could be made 'virtuous', then tolerance would be the matter of an improbable utopia. Ultimately, we need to consider how tolerance can be conceptualised in a way that is relevant to people and their societies as they actually are. In a time when a growing amount of political demands touches on themes of cultural identity and rights, and while we witness a mounting wave of religious fundamentalism, what should democracies accept and what should they refuse?

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction How to think of coexistence in a torn-apart world?
  3. 1. Tolerance is an issue for our times
  4. 2. Tolerance-structure
  5. 3. A torn-apart world
  6. 4. Recognition without reconciliation
  7. 5. The mechanisms of tolerance-structure
  8. 6. State neutrality
  9. 7. State neutrality and secularism
  10. 8. State neutrality and the limits of state action
  11. 9. Return to tolerance-structure: the “state neutrality” mechanism
  12. 10. From religious tolerance to cultural tolerance
  13. 11. Neutrality of justice and plurality of conceptions of the good
  14. 12. Principles of justice: political values or procedural liberalism?
  15. 13. Reasonable pluralism and consensus by crosschecking
  16. 14. The two tyrannies
  17. 15. How far can the state remain neutral?
  18. 16. Return to tolerance-structure: “fundamental values and rights”
  19. 17. Human dignity
  20. 18. Fundamental rights
  21. 19. Return to tolerance-structure: the third mechanism
  22. 20. Minorities and cultural rights
  23. 21. Critique of the concept of multicultural citizenship
  24. 22. Who is the subject of collective rights?
  25. 23. Do cultural differences need protecting?
  26. 24. Which cultural rights should tolerance-structure guarantee?
  27. 25. The fiction of single identity: we are all mixed-race
  28. 26. Education in memory and freedom
  29. 27. Subjective rights and the theory of connections
  30. 28. Critique of community
  31. 29. Tolerance-structure and the transformation of political society