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Toleration and the fair terms of engagement with diversity
Author: Mitja Sardoc – Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the various controversies over the genuine problems of toleration in a plurally diverse polity as both historically and conceptually, toleration is one of the foundational characteristics that defines the very essence of a plurally diverse polity and the basic virtue associated with a liberal conception of citizenship. In section 1, I present the main philosophical and conceptual issues related to the toleration-based approach to diversity in liberal political theory. In section 2 I identify the conditions and the circumstances of toleration. I articulate in Section 3 the most pressing objections against toleration. I present in section 4 two competing approaches to the toleration-based approach to diversity is faced with. In the concluding section, I outline a modified conception of toleration that mediates between different requirements associated with the two principled commitments of the liberal version of the rights-based conception of citizenship.

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