Author: Robert Paul WolffPublisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Author: Robert Paul WolffPublisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Author: Robert Paul WolffPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Beyond tolerance, by R.P. Wolff.--Tolerance and the scientific outlook, by B. Moore.--Repressive tolerance, by H. Marcuse.
Tolerance
Author: Hans OberdiekPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847687862
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Tolerance, while proving necessary in today's varied world, can be grudgingly given and resentfully received. Toleration may be necessary, but it has little appeal, and certainly cannot serve as either a central or unifying doctrine in a thriving moral or political philosophy. A deeper understanding of what tolerance requires leads us to see that it demands more. Once we inculcate the attitude of tolerance in ourselves and our politics, tolerance can occupy the difficult and contested. It does not make sense, for instance, if we already fully accept a practice; nor does it make sense if what we are asked to tolerate is 'intolerable: ' we appeal to those inclined to be intolerant to soften their judgement, to grant that what they disapprove can, and should be, permitted. What needs to be done is to show how tolerance is rooted in an appealing moral and political theory. Only then will toleration move beyond either simple expediency or grudging forbearance
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Author: Robert Paul WolffA Critique of Pure Tolerance. Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore, R., Herbert Marcuse
Author: Herbert MarcuseThe Difficulty of Tolerance
Author: Thomas ScanlonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533980
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.
The Power of Tolerance
Author: Wendy BrownPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231170181
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and act as a form of depoliticization? Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst debate the uses and misuses of tolerance, an exchange that highlights the fundamental differences in their critical practice despite a number of political similarities. Both scholars address the normative premises, limits, and political implications of various conceptions of tolerance. Brown offers a genealogical critique of contemporary discourses on tolerance in Western liberal societies, focusing on their inherent ties to colonialism and imperialism, and Forst reconstructs an intellectual history of tolerance that attempts to redeem its political virtue in democratic societies. Brown and Forst work from different perspectives and traditions, yet they each remain wary of the subjection and abnegation embodied in toleration discourses, among other issues. The result is a dialogue rich in critical and conceptual reflections on power, justice, discourse, rationality, and identity.
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Author: Tolerance
Author: Lars TonderPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199315817
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Tolerance is often considered a practice of restraint motivated by either respect or benevolence. But might there be something else to the practice of tolerance that makes it more than a way of constricting the actions of citizens who disagree? In this pioneering book, Lars Tønder turns the attention to tolerance's sensorial side in order to clarify the circumstances in which tolerance can become a source of empowerment and pluralization that goes beyond the image of citizenship currently on offer in contemporary democratic theory.
Why Tolerate Religion?
Author: Brian LeiterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140085234X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.