The Difficulty of Tolerance

The Difficulty of Tolerance
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 0521533988
ISBN-13 : 9780521533980
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Difficulty of Tolerance by : Thomas Scanlon

Download or read book The Difficulty of Tolerance written by Thomas Scanlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.

The Difficulty of Tolerance

The Difficulty of Tolerance
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Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 0511330758
ISBN-13 : 9780511330759
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Book Synopsis The Difficulty of Tolerance by : Thomas Scanlon

Download or read book The Difficulty of Tolerance written by Thomas Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays in political philosophy by T.M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by rights such as freedom of expression, and considers why these limits should be respected even when it seems that better results could be achieved by violating them. Other topics which are explored include voluntariness and consent, freedom of expression, tolerance, punishment, and human rights. The collection includes the classic essays 'Preference and Urgency', 'A Theory of Freedom of Expression', and 'Contractualism and Utilitarianism', as well as a number of other essays that have hitherto not been easily accessible. It will be essential reading for all those studying these topics from the perspective of political philosophy, politics, and law.

The Dimensions of Tolerance

The Dimensions of Tolerance
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Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages : 529
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ISBN-10 : 9781610443869
ISBN-13 : 1610443861
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Dimensions of Tolerance by : Herbert McClosky

Download or read book The Dimensions of Tolerance written by Herbert McClosky and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1983-11-29 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching well beyond traditional categories of analysis, McClosky and Brill have surveyed civil libertarian attitudes among the general public, opinion leaders, lawyers and judges, police officials, and academics. They analyze levels of tolerance in a wide range of civil liberties domains—first amendment rights, due process, privacy, and such emerging areas as women's and homosexual rights—and along numerous variables including political participation, ideology, age, and education. The authors explore fully the differences between civil libertarian values in the abstract and applying them in specific instances. They also examine the impact of tensions between liberties (free press and privacy, for example) and between tolerance and other values (such as public safety). They probe attitudes toward recently expanded liberties, finding that even the more informed and sophisticated citizen is often unable to read on through complex new civil liberties issues. This remarkable study offers a comprehensive assessment of the viability—and vulnerability—of beliefs central to the democratic system. It makes an invaluable contribution to the study of contemporary American institutions and attitudes.

What We Owe to Each Other

What We Owe to Each Other
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Publisher : Belknap Press
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9780674004238
ISBN-13 : 067400423X
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis What We Owe to Each Other by : T. M. Scanlon

Download or read book What We Owe to Each Other written by T. M. Scanlon and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years.” —Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.

A Critique of Pure Tolerance

A Critique of Pure Tolerance
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Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : NWU:35556001348242
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Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Critique of Pure Tolerance by : Robert Paul Wolff

Download or read book A Critique of Pure Tolerance written by Robert Paul Wolff and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1969 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Being Realistic about Reasons

Being Realistic about Reasons
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 9780199678488
ISBN-13 : 0199678480
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Being Realistic about Reasons by : T. M. Scanlon

Download or read book Being Realistic about Reasons written by T. M. Scanlon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is what we have reason to do a matter of fact? If so, what kind of truth is involved, how can we know it, and how do reasons motivate and explain action? In this concise and lucid book T.M. Scanlon offers answers, with a qualified defence of normative cognitivism - the view that there are normative truths about reasons for action.

Limits of Tolerance

Limits of Tolerance
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Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 1564321924
ISBN-13 : 9781564321923
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Limits of Tolerance by : Sebastian Brett

Download or read book Limits of Tolerance written by Sebastian Brett and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Legal Norms