Rainer ForstCambridge University Press, 1/17/2013EAN 9780521885775, ISBN10: 0521885779Hardcover, 662 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 3.7 cmLanguage: EnglishThe 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.IntroductionPart I. Between Power and MoralityThe Historical Discourse of Toleration1. Tolerationconcept and conceptions2. More than a prehistoryAntiquity and the Middle Age3. Reconciliation, schism, peacehumanism and the Reformation4. Toleration and sovereigntypolitical and individual5. Natural law, toleration and revolutionthe rise of liberalism and the aporias of freedom of conscience6. The Enlightenment - for and against toleration7. Toleration in the modern era8. Routes to tolerationPart II. A Theory of Toleration9. The justification of toleration10. The finitude of reason11. The virtue of tolerance12. The tolerant society.
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