Toleration in conflict : past and present / Rainer Forst ; translated by Ciaran Cronin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forst, Rainer, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Cronin, Ciaran (Ciaran P.), translator.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 103.

Ideas in context ; 103

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toleration--History.

Toleration.

Religious tolerance.

Toleration--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 635 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Toleration: concept and conceptions

More than a prehistory: antiquity and the Middle Ages

Reconciliation, schism, peace: humanism and the Reformation

Toleration and sovereignty: political and individual

Natural law, toleration and revolution: the rise of liberalism and the aporias of freedom of conscience

The Enlightenment

for and against toleration

Toleration in the modern period

Routes to toleration

The justification of toleration

The finitude of reason

The virtue of tolerance

The tolerant society.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23374-7

1-139-60987-4

1-139-61173-9

1-139-61545-9

1-139-60839-8

1-139-05120-2

1-139-62475-X

1-283-89933-7

1-139-62103-3

OCLC:

821898295