Political Theory

The Limits of Tolerance

ABSTRACT

In the face of current debates about immigration, open societies, and campus speech codes, conferees endeavored to discern what views are reasonable for liberal-minded people, on the basis of classical and modern readings and the application of these in the present discussion.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Williams, Bernard. Toleration: An Elusive Virtue. Edited by David Heyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Andersen, Robert and Tina Fetner. “Economic Inequality and Intolerance: Attitudes toward Homosexuality in 35 Democracies.” American Journal of Political Science 52, no. 4 (October 2008): 942-958.

Bansak, Kirk, Jens Hainmueller, and Dominik Hangartner. “How Economic, Humanitarian, and Religious Concerns Shape European Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers.” Science 354, no. 6309 (October 14, 2016): 217-222.

Bayle, Pierre. A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23, “Compel Them to Come In, That My House May Be Full”. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005.

Cohen, Andrew Jason. “What the Liberal State Should Tolerate Within Its Borders.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37 (2007): 479-514.

Florida, Richard and Gary Gates. “Technology and Tolerance: The Importance of Diversity to High-Technology Growth.” The Brookings Institution (2001): 1-12.

Forst, Rainer. Toleration in Conflict: Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Haidt, Jonathan and Greg Lukianoff. “Why It’s a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence.” The Atlantic (2017): 1-10.

Kukathas, Chandran. “Cultural Toleration.” Nomos (1997): 69-104.

Kymlicka, Will. “Two Models of Pluralism and Tolerance.” Analyse & Kritik 13 (1992): 33-56.

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Edited by Elizabeth Rapaport. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1978.

Persson, Ingmar and Julian Savulescu, “The Limits of Religious Tolerance: A Secular View” In Religion, Intolerance, and Conflict: A Scientific and Conceptual Investigation, edited by Steve Clarke, Russell Powell, and Julian Savulsecu, 236-252. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Popper, Karl R. The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I: The Spell of Plato. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1963.

Scruton, Roger. “How Identity Politics Destroys Freedom.” Lecture to the Acton Institute (2017): 1-8.

Spinoza, Benedict de. Theological-Political Treatise. Edited by Jonathan Israel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Zagorin, Perez. How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.