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