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What Kind of Value Is Tolerance?
This conversation delves into the fundamental concept of tolerance, its nature, and its ethical and political challenges. It addresses key questions such as the relationship between tolerance and respect, permissiveness, idealism, and how to deal with the intolerant.
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1. Does tolerance toward something mean considering it respectable?
2. Does pure tolerance mean that everything is equally respectable?
3. Does pure tolerance lead to permissiveness and licentiousness?
4. Does tolerance sacrifice reform for the sake of peace?
5. Should we also tolerate the intolerant?
6. Does pure tolerance fuel war and violence instead of peace?
7. Does the proverb "Mercy to the sharp-toothed leopard is tyranny to the sheep" negate and contradict tolerance?
8. Does tolerance prevent us from idealism and living passionately?
9. Does loyalty to the value of tolerance not require that the values of seeking rights and seeking truth sometimes be sacrificed?
10. Is tolerant religiosity possible?
11. Did tolerance exist in the pre-modern world?
12. Is tolerance more a result of libertarian ideas in the modern world, or a result of various institutional economic and political relations in modern states?
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