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Instructors: Dr. Annette Schmitt
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Sem Toleration
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
Tolerance seems to be the other side of the coin of liberty. If we agree that individuals should be free to speak their minds and pursue their ideas of the good life, then we must be prepared to encounter all kinds of instances of nonsense, bad taste, indecency etc. And these, for the sake of freedom, we must put up with. Tolerance, thus, seems to be the chief virtue of the liberal citizen.
In the course of this seminar, we will analyze the merit of this intuition:
- What does it meant for a person to be tolerant?
- Who needs to be tolerant for freedom to prevail: the state, the citizens or both?
- Is it actually tolerance a liberal advocates - or rather respect?
- Are the citizens of liberal states, as a rule, tolerant?
- What can (and perhaps must) a liberal state do in order to encourage its citizens to acquire liberal virtues?
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Recommended reading list:
Garzón Valdés, Ernesto (1995). "'Nimm Deine dreckigen Pfoten von meinem Mozart!' - Überlegungen zum Begriff der Toleranz". In: Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Ruth Zimmerling, Hg. Facetten der Wahrheit. Freiburg, 469-494.
Huster, Stephan (2002). Die ethische Neutralität des Staates. Tübingen.
Locke, John (1765). Letters Concerning Toleration. London.
Macedo, Steven (1990). Liberal Virtues. Oxford.
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