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Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism

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  1. Susan Mendus
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Concept of Toleration

    • Susan Mendus
    Pages 1-21

  3. Locke and the Case for Rationality

    • Susan Mendus
    Pages 22-43

  4. Mill and the Case for Diversity

    • Susan Mendus
    Pages 44-68

  5. The Justification of Toleration

    • Susan Mendus
    Pages 69-109

  6. Toleration in a Liberal Society

    • Susan Mendus
    Pages 110-145

  7. Choice, Community and Socialism

    • Susan Mendus
    Pages 146-162

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 163-171
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About this book

Toleration is often held to be a central virtue of liberal societies, but the grounds on which it is held to be so are often confused and conflicting. This book aims to explain and assess the justifications of toleration offered by writers in the liberal tradition. Beginning with John Locke's Letter on Toleration and John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty it discusses some seminal defences of toleration and then moves on to assess the adequacy of these accounts and the place of toleration in socialist theory.
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