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| ISBN: | 9781139615457
1139615459
9781139624756
113962475X
9781139051200
1139051202
1283899337
9781283899338
9781139611732
1139611739
1107233747
9781107233744
1139609874
9781139609876
1139608398
9781139608398
1139621033
9781139621038
9780521885775
0521885779
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-618) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| 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"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Forst, Rainer, 1964- Toleration in conflict. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521885775
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