1st Edition
Toleration and Freedom from Harm Liberalism Reconceived
By Andrew Jason Cohen
Copyright 2018
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Toleration matters to us all. It contributes both to individuals leading good lives and to societies that are simultaneously efficient and just. There are personal and social matters that would be improved by taking toleration to be a fundamental value. This book develops and defends a full account of toleration—what it is, why and when it matters, and how it should be manifested in a just... Read more
Introduction
Part I: Conceptual and Grounding Issues
1. What Toleration is Not
2. What Toleration Is
3. The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm
4. General Defenses of Toleration
5. Freedom from Harm
Part II: Normative Issues
6. The Harm Principle
7. Rejecting the Harm Principle: The Sovereignty Principle, Legal Moralism, Legal Paternalism
8. Toleration, Families, and Licensing
9. Toleration and Groups
10. Toleration Internationally
Conclusion
Biography
Andrew Jason Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of Toleration (2014).
