1st Edition

The Politics and Ethics of Toleration

Edited By Johannes Drerup, Michael Kühler Copyright 2021
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Toleration plays a key role in liberal thought. This book explores our current understanding of toleration in liberal theory and practice. Toleration has traditionally been characterized as the willingness to put up with others or their actions or practices despite the fact that one considers them as objectionable. Toleration has thus been regarded as one of the core aspects of liberalism: as... Read more

Introduction

Johannes Drerup and Michael Kühler

1. The simplicity of toleration

Peter Königs

2. Can a value-neutral liberal state still be tolerant?

Michael Kühler

3. Toleration and modus vivendi

John Horton

4. What liberals should tolerate internationally

Andrew Jason Cohen

5. Rescuing toleration

Anna Elisabetta Galeotti

6. Education, epistemic virtues, and the power of toleration

Johannes Drerup

Biography

Johannes Drerup is professor of philosophy of education and educational theory at TU Dortmund and guest professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. His research interests include philosophy of education, educational theory, philosophy of childhood, and political and moral philosophy.

Michael Kühler is Research and Teaching Fellow at the Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching, and Innovation (ARRTI) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and “Privatdozent” at the University of Münster, Germany. His research interests include ethics, metaethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of love.