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Book Justice  Humanity  and Social Toleration

Download or read book Justice Humanity and Social Toleration written by Xunwu Chen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice, Humanity and Social Toleration makes a novel statement of justice as setting human affairs right in accordance with the principles of human rights, human goods and human bonds; it explores the timely embodiments of this family of justice in our age including social toleration, and democracy.

Book Justice  Humanity and Social Toleration

Download or read book Justice Humanity and Social Toleration written by Xunwu Chen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice, Humanity and Social Toleration develops the concept of normative justice as setting human affairs right in accordance with the principles of human rights, human goods, and human bonds. Defending the ideas of global justice and modernity, Professor Xunwu Chen explores social toleration and democracy as embodiments of normative justice in our time. The approach of this text is groundbreaking. By giving equal emphasis to normative justice as distributive justice and corrective justice, Chen shifts the paradigm for a new view on global justice. The discourse on global justice is furthered by the context of Eastern-Western dialogues. This thoughtful and groundbreaking work is a stimulating work for professionals and both graduate and undergraduate students.

Book The culture of toleration in diverse societies

Download or read book The culture of toleration in diverse societies written by Catriona McKinnon and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The idea of toleration as the appropriate response to difference has been central to liberal thought since Locke. Although the subject has been widely and variously explored, there has been reluctance to acknowledge the new meaning that current debates on toleration have when compared with those at its origins in the early modern period and with subsequent discussions about pluralism and freedom of expression. This collection starts from a clear recognition of the new terms of the debate. It recognises that a new academic consensus is slowly emerging on a view of tolerance that is reasonable in two senses. Firstly of reflecting the capacity of seeing the other's viewpoint, secondly on the relatively limited extent to which toleration can be granted. It reflects the cross-thematic and cross-disciplinary nature of such discussions, dissecting a number of debates such as liberalism and communitarianism, public and private, multiculturalism and the politics of identity, and a number of disciplines: moral, legal and political philosophy, historical and educational studies, anthropology, sociology and psychology. A group of distinguished authors explore the complexities emerging from the new debate. They scrutinise, with analytical sophistication, the philosophical foundation, the normative content and the broadly political implications of a new culture of toleration for diverse societies. Specific issues considered include the toleration of religious discrimination in employment, city life and community, social ethos, publicity, justice and reason and ethics. The book is unique in resolutely looking forward to the theoretical and practical challenges posed by commitment to a conception of toleration demanding empathy and understanding in an ever-diversifying world.

Book Toleration in Conflict

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rainer Forst
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-17
  • ISBN : 0521885779
  • Pages : 662 pages

Download or read book Toleration in Conflict written by Rainer Forst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.

Book Tolerance

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  • Author : Ville Päivänsalo
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 3643908717
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Tolerance written by Ville Päivänsalo and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolerance: Human Fragility and the Quest for Justice: Sheds new light on the liberal democratic values of toleration, taking into account the fragility of human moral ventures in general - within and beyond the Western liberal tradition; Broadly considers the limits of tolerance as they have stemmed from sincere efforts to define justice in a secular or a postsecular manner, together with its related rights, responsibilities, and virtues; Clarifies various forms of response to human needs as connected to the condition of human fragility as well as the persistent quest for justice. Ville Paeivaensalo, PhD (Theology, Helsinki), is a docent in theological and social ethics at the University of Helsinki. Taina Kalliokoski, MTh, is a doctoral student of social ethics at the University of Helsinki. David Huisjen, MTh, is a secondary school teacher and a doctoral student at the Department of Systematic Theology at the University of Helsinki.

Book Toleration  Diversity  and Global Justice

Download or read book Toleration Diversity and Global Justice written by Kok-Chor Tan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "comprehensive liberalism" defended in this book offers an alternative to the narrower "political liberalism" associated with the writings of John Rawls. By arguing against making tolerance as fundamental a value as individual autonomy, and extending the reach of liberalism to global society, it opens the way for dealing more adequately with problems of human rights and economic inequality in a world of cultural pluralism.

Book The Law of Peoples

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  • Author : John Rawls
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2001-03-02
  • ISBN : 0674266560
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Law of Peoples written by John Rawls and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of two parts: “The Law of Peoples,” a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,” first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. “The Law of Peoples” extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an “outlaw society” and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions. “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls’s most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine—such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls’s own “Justice as Fairness,” presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).

Book Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind

Download or read book Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind written by Xunwu Chen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Justice and Our Epochal Mind explores the mind of our epoch, defined as the period since the Nuremberg Trial and the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. Xunwu Chen examines four defining ideas of this epoch—global justice, cosmopolitanism, crimes against humanity, and cultural toleration—as well as the structural relationships among these ideas. Chen argues that the mind of our epoch is essentially the mind of humanity. Its world view, horizon, standpoint, norms, standards, and vocabularies are of humanity, by humanity, and for humanity, and all are embodied in human institutions and practices throughout the globe. Meanwhile, our epochal mind has a dialectical relationship with particular cultures bearing normative force. As a metaphysical subjectivity and substance, humanity is the source of all human values in our epoch and defines what can and should be human values and virtues. Humankind, therefore, are a people with socio-political and legal sovereignty, sharing a common fate. This novel study brings a cross-cultural approach and will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, political science, sociology, and the humanities more broadly.

Book Social Justice

Download or read book Social Justice written by Percy Vivian Jones and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When Tolerance is No Virtue

Download or read book When Tolerance is No Virtue written by S. D. Gaede and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns sympathetic and critical, S. D. Gaede offers a brief, lucid and balanced survey of the core issues in the debate over multiculturalism and political correctness.

Book The Right to Justification

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  • Author : Rainer Forst
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0231147082
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Right to Justification written by Rainer Forst and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to base a theory of justice. Rising up to meet this challenge, Rainer Forst, a leading member of the Frankfurt School's newest generation of philosophers, conceives of an "autonomous" construction of justice founded on what he calls the basic moral right to justification. Forst begins by identifying this right from the perspective of moral philosophy. Then, through an innovative, detailed critical analysis, he ties together the central components of social and political justice--freedom, democracy, equality, and toleration--and joins them to the right to justification. The resulting theory treats "justificatory power" as the central question of justice, and by adopting this approach, Forst argues, we can discursively work out, or "construct," principles of justice, especially with respect to transnational justice and human rights issues. As he builds his theory, Forst engages with the work of Anglo-American philosophers such as John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Amartya Sen, and critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth. Straddling multiple subjects, from politics and law to social protest and philosophical conceptions of practical reason, Forst brilliantly gathers contesting claims around a single, elastic theory of justice.

Book Toleration

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  • Author : Catriona McKinnon
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2007-05-07
  • ISBN : 1134351518
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Toleration written by Catriona McKinnon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the work of Locke, Mill and Rawls, and taking a closer look at contemporary debates, such as artistic freedom and holocaust denial, Catriona McKinnon presents an accessible introduction to toleration.

Book Wonderful World  Beautiful People

Download or read book Wonderful World Beautiful People written by Njoku Saintjerry a and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Wonderful world; Beautiful people is a collection of thoughtful practical ideas on the teaching of tolerance, social justice and service; the author seeks for the simplest human approach to control the global crisis of hate crimes resulting into terrorism, civil unrest and other forms of criminal behaviors that repels people from each other. The title of this book is derived from Jimmy Cliff reggae classic 'Wonderful world; Beautiful people. This book takes you through a simple guide on how we could build a better society and a community of people with different beliefs, nationality, attributes and cultural system but united in one progressive spirit of tolerance and love. It delves further into those personal disturbing issues you will likely not want to discuss in order not to appear strange, hurting and unfriendly to people of other cultural background. This book will guide you through the practice of tolerance and leadership qualities in the business community, family and strangers. How to deal with people you think are 'impossible characters or people you find difficult to accept their views. With ideas sourced from over a hundred great teachers, social think-tanks and sometimes from people with terribly conflicting opinions, this book will guide you through the practice of tolerance and leadership qualities in the business community, how to deal with people you think are 'impossible characters or people you find difficult to tolerate and how to relate with negative people. Do not let negative people turn you into a pessimist! Nothing ruins the happiness in one's life more than anxiety and letting your depressive imagination take over. Social workers, Students and Business people will find this book useful in the areas of Human Relations and PR. Aspiring leaders, law enforcement agents, Teachers and Social Crusaders will find this book useful in areas relating to community service, social networking, crime control, and self-consciousness. "Make no judgment about what you don't know" - In your hand is a plain accounts of Mahatma Gandhi's inspired approach to social justice and the beauty of civic responsibility"

Book Religion and Social Justice

Download or read book Religion and Social Justice written by S. Thakur and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-10-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical examination of the relationship between religion and social justice. Its main thesis is that, since the primary purpose of religion is the moral and spiritual transformation of human nature, it ought not to be construed as a direct instrument of social justice on earth - as it is by Liberation theologians, for example, as well as by many liberal Christians and Jews. Indirectly, however, religion may well be a pre-condition of social justice. For it can be argued that, without the counteracting effects of the moral and spiritual values prescribed by religion, the liberal vision of individual rights and social justice may be self-defeating. Humanity is best served if this liberal vision is counterbalanced by the completely contrary utopia enshrined in the biblical idea of the kingdom of God, and its equivalents in the other great religions of the world.

Book Why Tolerate Religion

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  • Author : Brian Leiter
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-24
  • ISBN : 140085234X
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Why Tolerate Religion written by Brian Leiter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.

Book Tolerance and the Ethical Life

Download or read book Tolerance and the Ethical Life written by Andrew Fiala and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fresh and exciting way, this new book shows how tolerance connects with the practice of philosophy. Andrew Fiala examines the virtue of tolerance as it appears in several historical contexts: Socratic philosophy, Stoic philosophy, Pragmatism, and Existentialism. The lesson derived is that tolerance is a virtue for what Fiala calls 'tragic communities'. Such communities are developed when we come together across our differences, but they lack the robust sense of connection that we often seek with others - the complete sort of happiness that is offered by a more utopian ideal of community. But rather than viewing this conclusion as a failure, Fiala maintains that tragic communities are the best communities possible for human beings who are aware of their own individuality and finitude. Indeed, they are typical of the sorts of communities created by philosophers engaged in dialogue with others. Tolerance and the Ethical Life will strongly appeal to specialists and upper-level students in Ethics and Political Philosophy, both for its unique historical exploration of tolerance and its application of those results to present-day moral theory.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration written by Mitja Sardoč and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different concepts most commonly associated with it (e.g. respect, recognition) as well as the discussion of the many problems dominating the controversies on toleration at both the theoretical or practical level. The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration is aimed as a resource for a global scholarly audience looking for either a detailed presentation of major accounts of toleration, the most important conceptual issues associated with toleration and the many problems dividing either scholars, policy-makers or practitioners.