Toleration

1998 • 266 sayfa • EN

Yazan Preston T. King

The aim of this book, first published over twenty years ago, is to set out more fully than before the logic, implications and applications of toleration. The book still fills an important gap in the literature, inspired by a tradition reaching back to Pierre Bayle and J. S. Mill. The book supplies a detailed analysis of the philosophy of toleration, constructs a history of toleration as a series of negations of specific intolerances, details the place of 'procedural scepticism' in the determination of truth and falsity, and explores the relevance of tolerance to justice and to equality in plural democratic states. Toleration remains the most comprehensive account of its subject available, and now enjoys the status of a classic.