The simplicity of toleration

Königs, Peter

doi:10.1080/13698230.2019.1616877

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“…172 hooks, All About Love, 89-90. 173 hooks,All About Love,94,[115][116][117][118][155][156][157][158] Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book 2:1. Some empirical studies suggest that ethically positive dispositions, such as compassion, can in fact be inculcated through particular types of training.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, Arendt herself suggests the virtue of forgiveness, which she sees as fundamental to ongoing political action. 157 Unlike tolerance, which is necessarily passive because it mandates non-interference, 158 forgiveness requires a conscious investment in, and communication with, others. 159 As such, forgiveness is quintessentially social, while tolerance, in one important sense, is antisocial.…”

Section: Rejuvenating Liberal Political Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Importance of Dystopian Hypotheticals: Towards an Ethical Turn in Liberal Political Philosophy

Green

2022

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This paper argues that liberal philosophy underestimates the importance of political ethics, which I define as the question of how individual citizens should comport themselves politically under largely normal conditions. Using three case studies from popular dystopian science fiction as ‘intuition pumps’, I contend that the behaviour of such individuals, both discretely and collectively speaking, has significant causal potency when it comes to contemporary politics. Upon this basis, I diagnose as pathological the faith that liberal philosophers place in the power of institutional arrangements to curtail human behaviour. I conclude that liberal philosophy should embrace an ‘ethical turn’, in pursuit of which I make some indicative recommendations as to what such a development might comprise.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%