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Political Toleration: A Reply to Newey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2010

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References

1 Jones, Peter, ‘Making Sense of Political Toleration’, British Journal of Political Science, 37 (2007), 383402CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Newey, Glen, ‘Political Toleration: Reply to Jones’, British Journal of Political Science, forthcomingGoogle Scholar; Newey, , Virtue, Reason and Toleration (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999)Google Scholar.

3 I do not, for example, share Newey’s sense that ritual abuse hurled at one another by rival sets of football supporters is ‘the epitome of intolerance’.

4 ‘I have expounded a three-part structure for toleration, comprising classes of reasons of the following kinds: (a) reasons for disapproving of a practice; (b) reasons for failing to act so as to prevent the practice; (c) reasons explaining why, in other cases of disapproval, prevention is justified.’ Newey, , Virtue, Reason and Toleration, p. 48Google Scholar, my emphases; see also pp. 25–35.

5 For further discussion of this issue, see Jones, Peter, ‘Can Speech be Intolerant?’ in Glen Newey, ed., Freedom of Expression: Counting the Costs (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), pp. 929Google Scholar.

6 I previously noted this possibility in ‘Making Sense of Political Toleration’, p. 395, fn. 21.