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Tolerance - desired by many and often demanded. But what exactly does it mean to be tolerant? Does tolerance imply rejection? Or is tolerance merely the opposite of dogmatism? And how does a tolerant attitude differ from an indifferent one? Starting from a well-founded explicati…
It is tempting to believe that dehumanisation is an excess of rhetoric - that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous. David Livingstone Smith argues otherwise, showing that when we dehumanise our enemies, we consider them both human and not. Dehumanisation is a genuine psychol…
"Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual deh…
"Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual deh…
"Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and isn't. To dehumanize an enemy is to hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: the enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. Calling someone a monster is not merely metaphor-actual deh…
These essays relate philosophical questions about the meaning and justification of toleration to debates about such issues as religious freedom, racial discrimination, pornography and censorship.
Aspects of toleration
by Horton, John, Mendus, Susan
fromRoutledge library editions. Political science
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Aspects of toleration
by Mendus, Susan, Horton, John, (John P.)
fromRoutledge library editions
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Type: Book
These essays relate philosophical questions about the meaning and justification of toleration to debates about such issues as religious freedom, racial discrimination, pornography and censorship.