More than anything, diversity is what characterizes societies of the 21st century. Our
contemporary societies are marked by ethnic, religious, racial, ideological, moral, and …

The question of toleration matters more than ever. The politics of the twenty-first century is
replete with both the successes and, all too often, the failures of toleration. Yet a growing …

Most regard toleration as an unattractive fallback position of compromise and so tend to
overlook it in favor of such active concepts as freedom, equality, and justice. Fotion and …

In a pluralistic society such as ours, tolerance is a virtue—but it doesn't always seem so.
Some suspect that it entangles us in unacceptable moral compromises and inequalities of …

GOOD LIBERALS IN A LIBERAL SOCIETY-and especially as citizens of that bastion of liber-
alism, the academy-we value tolerance. We try to instill tolerance in our students as we …

The tendency to use tolerance and toleration as roughly interchangable terms has
encouraged misunderstanding of the liberal legacy and impeded efforts to improve upon it …

It is often claimed that tolerance is a major virtue of liberal societies. Tolerance is praised as
a means by which pluralism can be reinforced, the options available to individuals can be …

liberal values of toleration and autonomy come to be embraced for their own sake." The “just
so" story he tells is that people first subscribe to the liberal principles of justice as a modus …

In contemporary liberal thought," tolerance" has come to be redefined as a synonym for
ethical neutrality: refusal to judge among competing views of goods and evils. The result of …

THE DIFFICULTY with toleration is that it seems to be at once necessary and impossible. It is
necessary where different groups have conflicting beliefs—moral, political, or religious—and …