Toleration and Cultural Controversies* |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Andrew?ShortenEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, European Social and Political Studies, c/o Vice-Provost’s Office (Academic and International), University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK |
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Abstract: | Multicultural societies are far more likely than others to include minorities committed to the pursuit of practices that offend
the majority, and treating the cultural commitments of all citizens fairly will require some set of guiding principles to
distinguish tolerable ‘cultural controversies’ from intolerable ones. This paper does not directly address the moral question at stake here (i.e. demarcating the limits of toleration) but rather seeks to provide a politically justifiable normative argument to explain when tolerant restraint is necessary, permissible or prohibited. This argument emerges from
a concern to treat the cultural commitments of all citizens fairly. In turn, the argument indicates a potential reconciliation
of the ‘politics of toleration’ with the ‘politics of respect’.
*I would like to thank Stephen De Wijze, Hillel Steiner, Thomas Uebel, Peter Jones and Res Publica’s anonymous referees for their very helpful comments. I would also like to thank the ESRC for providing funding. |
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Keywords: | fairness liberalism multiculturalism pluralism public justification toleration |
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