{"product_id":"tolerance-and-modern-liberalism-9781498529068","title":"Tolerance and Modern Liberalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModern liberal societies are submerged in conflict and disagreement. People disagree about almost everythingnot only about matters of justice, but also about issues that are more private. They disagree on how to interpret freedom and equality; they disagree and even experience conflict with issues regarding the use of a veil, or children wearing crucifixes in public spaces; they also enter into conflict and disagreement regarding issues such as homosexuality, extramarital sex, drugs, euthanasia, abortion, suicide, and experimentation on animals. All these issues can be understood as moral problems, but we also have disagreements concerning other topics that are unrelated to moral issues.For modern liberals, the existence of such conflicts is due to the possibility of people, bearing the right to disagree, expressing themselves in a free and equal way. This freedom is indeed one of the biggest triumphs in the history of liberalism: many societies have come to be constituted by autonomou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTolerance is at once liberalism's biggest triumph and its most contested feature. In this book, René González de la Vega delves deep into the philosophical foundations of tolerance as found in the work of 'deontological' liberals such as John Rawls and Rainer Forst, and finds it wanting. The book's careful analysis and powerful arguments present a challenge to be answered by all liberals of this persuasion. -- Catriona McKinnon, Professor of Political Theory, University of Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction I. The Premises of Modern Liberalism 1. Three Philosophical Claims 2. The Rational and Reasonable \t3. The Moral System II. The Liberal Idea of Tolerance \t4. Regarding the Concept \t5. On Relevant Convictions \t6. About the Power and Competence to Tolerate III. Tolerance in Modern Liberalism \t7. Tolerance as Reasonableness: John Rawls’ Conception \t8. Tolerance and the Two Normative Systems: Ernesto Garzón Valdes’s Conception 9. Tolerance as a Virtue of Justice: Rainer Forst’s Conception \t10. Tolerance and the Moral System IV. The Moral Paradox of Tolerance \t11. The Limits of Tolerance \t12. Tolerance and the Conceptions of the Good \t13. Tolerance as a Moral Dilemma \t14. Tolerance in the Moral System V. The Aretaic Turn 15. The Practical Impossibility of Tolerance \t16. Tolerance as a Dispositional Property \t17. The Contextual Response","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040696533335,"sku":"9781498529068","price":75.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498529068.jpg?v=1750947545","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tolerance-and-modern-liberalism-9781498529068","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}