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  • Cited by 25
  • Rainer Forst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2013
Print publication year:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781139051200
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051200
Subjects:
Political Theory, History of Ideas, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Series:
Ideas in Context (103)
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Book description

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 critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself stands in conflict. For some, toleration was and is an expression of mutual respect in spite of far-reaching differences, for others, a condescending, potentially repressive attitude and practice. Rainer Forst analyses these conflicts by reconstructing the philosophical and political discourse of toleration since antiquity. He demonstrates the diversity of the justifications and practices of toleration from the Stoics and early Christians to the present day and develops a systematic theory which he tests in discussions of contemporary conflicts over toleration.

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'… simply the most impressive philosophical work specifically on toleration that I have ever read …'

John Horton Source: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

'From the Bible through the Church Fathers and the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment, and into modernity, Forst demonstrates how efforts to theorize toleration turn into their opposite: the same conceptual resources that advanced toleration are later employed to advance intolerance.'

Vincent Lloyd Source: Studies in Christian Ethics

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