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for toleration. Being tolerant with reference to these practices is deWnitely not a virtue, but a moral wrong. To sum up: The di ...

where the state has no business, hence no reason to intervene with coercive action. The principle of toleration therefore relies ...

only as a second best, provided that there is no risk for the social order as a whole and that no right has been infringed. In t ...

liberal society with diVerent illiberal cultures, but also, by the same token, shows its inadequacy to deal politically with con ...

justiWcation presupposes the principles of justice, being grounded on fairness, but its adoption as a political principle is the ...

can allegedly be recognized and accepted also by people from alien cultures, given the neutrality of liberal political legitimac ...

a matter of ascription, but of choice; and allows toleration to be seen as pertaining to the private domain. This notion of plur ...

group-diVerences that are disliked by the majority of a society. Majorities can be more or less homogeneous, but what is relevan ...

whenever the visibility of some groups’ practice in public space is perceived as loud and provocative and hence as an invasion o ...

diVerent trait, practice, or identity in the range of the legitimate, viable, ‘‘normal’’ options of an open society. In this res ...

of toleration towards cultural practices, especially those oppressive of women and children (Okin 1998 ; Nussbaum 1999 ; Shachar ...

cultural issues has to do with the recognition of the equal status of minority groups and their identity, and if this represents ...

Crick,B. 1971. Toleration and tolerance in theory and practice.Government and Opposition, 6 : 144 – 71. Douglass, R. B., Mara, G ...

—— and Norman, W. (eds.) 2000 .Citizenship in Diverse Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Larmore,C. 1987 .Patterns of Mor ...

Sigler,J.A. 1983 .Minority Rights: A Comparative Analysis. Westport, Conn.: Green- wood Press. Taylor,C. 1993. The politics of r ...

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questions held more than mere philosophical interest. On the contrary, they bore directly on the issue of how the peoples of dis ...

diVerent backgrounds. Yet, in spite of these developments, there has not been a complete convergence on common ethical standards ...

recognized the importance of autonomy, which it views as a good to which all persons have an equal claim. But far from this mand ...

religion to dissenters in their midst, or insist on illiberal (even if not ‘‘unnat- ural’’) sexual practices (such as female gen ...