A01=Jay Budziszewski
Author_Jay Budziszewski
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Coarser Distinctions
Coercive Enforcement
constitutional theory
Constitutionally Limited Government
County Housing Authority
Discursive Reasoning
Educational Neutralism
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Establishment Clause
False Privacy
freedom of expression analysis
Good Life
Grand Rapids School District
Harm Principle
Intrinsic Good
Irrebuttable Presumption
J. Budziszewski
Legitimate Governmental Purpose
liberal education reform
Model Ordinance
moral relativism
Neutralist Error
Night Watchman
philosophical critique of neutrality
political philosophy
Prima Facie Goods
Prurient Appeal
Secular Creeds
Tolerant Man
True Tolerance
Ultimate Concern
Violate
virtue ethics
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780765806666
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In contemporary liberal thought, "tolerance" has come to be redefined as a synonym for ethical neutrality: refusal to judge among competing views of goods and evils. The result of this extreme relativism has been a foundations crisis in law, politics, education, and other areas of social life. In this lucidly written and brilliantly argued volume, J. Budziszewski attempts to reserve the self-destruction of modern liberalism by showing that true tolerance is not only consistent with taking stands about objective goods and evils, but actually requires doing so.Tolerance, falsely understood as ethical neutrality, has the paradoxical effect of crippling policy choice by divesting it of the moral and practical framework on which it depends. By painstakingly and exhaustively dissecting each of the many neutralist arguments, Budziszewski demonstrates that real neutrality is logically impossible. Confronted by alternative views, the neutralist at best obscures his own underlying judgments, and at worst abandons all possible defense against fanatics who oppose both true equality and true tolerance.True Tolerance is both a rigorous critique, and a polemic undertaken in the name of a positive, twenty-first century vision of liberalism. Budziszewsky outlines a view of true tolerance that assumes a relationship with an older liberal tradition and a codependence with other virtues, including humility, mercy, charity, respect, and courtesy. This vision is rooted in historical experience and rational conviction about what is good. In the spirit of liberal and classical theorists of virtue from Aristotle to John Locke to Alasdair MacIntyre, the virtue of true tolerance is much more than a readiness to follow known rules; it includes a developed ability to distinguish good rules from bad, and to choose rightly even where there are no rules or where rules seem to contradict each other. Accessibly written and intended for a wide readership, True Tolerance will be of special interest to political theorists and activists, and to sociologists and philosophers.
