State tolerance is an offence, not a virtue
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Tolerance, Liberal State, Neutrality, Moral Reasons
Abstract
In this article the author makes a simple claim: in present days, several political leaders use the term tolerance to qualify their attitudes towards certain kind of people, practices and cultures. The question is simple: Is the tolerant state allowed (morally and conceptually) to speak about tolerance? The thesis defended by the author is that the modern liberal State cannot (because of conceptual reasons) and should not (because of moral reasons) talk about tolerance.
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Cohen, Andrew Jason (2004). “What Toleration Is?”, in: Ethics, No. 115, October, University of Chicago.
Dworkin, Ronald (1989). “Liberal Community”, in: California Law Re-view, Vol. 77, No. 3.
Garzón Valdés, Ernesto (1989a). “Representación y Democracia”, in Doxa. Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho No. 6,Universidad de Alicante.
Garzón Valdés, Ernesto (1989b). “El paternalismo”, in Doxa. Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho No. 6,Universidad de Alicante.
Garzón Valdés, Ernesto (1989c). “Deberes positivos generales”, in Doxa. Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho No. 6,Universidad de Alicante.
Garzón Valdés, Ernesto (2000). “«No pongas tus sucias manos sobre Mozart». Algunas consideraciones sobre el concepto de tolerancia”, in: Insti-tuciones Suicidas. Estudios de ética y política, México D.F.: Paidós-UNAM/FFL.
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Locke, John (1796). A Letter Concerning Toleration, J. Brooke,
MacIntyre, Alasdair (1983). After Virtue, London, Duckworth.
Martín Diego Farrell (2007). Utilitarismo, Liberalismo y Democracia, Méxi-co D.F.: Fontamara, BEFDP, No. 50.
Mendus, Susan (1989). Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism, London: Mac-millan
Nicholson, Peter (1985). “Toleration as a Moral Ideal”, in: John Horton and Susan Mendus (eds.) Aspects of Toleration. Philosophical Studies, London: Methuen.
Nino, Carlos S. (2005). Ética y Derechos Humanos. Un ensayo de fundamentación, Buenos Aires: Editorial Astrea.
Nino, Carlos S. (1996). La constitución de la democracia deliberativa, Gedisa: Barcelona
Nozick, Robert (1974). Anarchy, State and Utopia, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Rawls, John (1999). A theory of Justice, Oxford University Press.
Rawls, John (1996). “Introduction”, in: Political Liberalism, Columbia University Press. Raz, Joseph (1986). The Morality of Freedom, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Raz, Joseph (1988). “Autonomy, Toleration, and the Harm Principle”, in: Susan Mendus (ed.) Justifying Toleration. Conceptual and Historical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press.
Ovejero, Félix (2008). Incluso un pueblo de demonios: democracia, liberalismo, republicanismo, Madrid: Katz.
Rivera López, Eduardo (1997). Presupuestos morales del Liberalismo, Madrid, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales.
Rivera, Fabiola (2005). “Rawls, Filosofía y Tolerancia”, in: Rodolfo Vázquez (comp.) Tolerancia y Pluralismo, México D.F.: Ediciones Coyoacán.
Sadurski, Wojciech (1990). “Joseph Raz on Liberal Neutrality and the Harm Principle”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1.
Sandel, Michael J. (1989). “Moral Argument and Liberal Toleration: Abortion and Homosexuality”, in: California Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 3.
Sandel, Michael J. (1992). Liberalism and the limits of Justice, Cambridge University Press.
Schmitt, Annette (1992). “Las circunstancias de la tolerancia”, in: Doxa. Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho, No. 11,Alicante,
Vázquez, Rodolfo (2010). Las fronteras morales del derecho, México D.F.:, Fontamara, BEFDP No. 112.
Villoro, Luis (1982). Creer, saber, conocer, México, Siglo Veintiuno.
Warnock, Mary (1987). “The Limits of Toleration”, Susan Mendus and David Edwards (eds.) On Toleration, Oxford University Press.
Williams, Bernard (2005). “Toleration, a Political or Moral Question?”, in: Geoffrey Hawthorn (ed.) In the Beginning was the Deed. Realism and Moralism in Political Argument, Princeton University Press.
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González de la Vega, R. (2011). State tolerance is an offence, not a virtue. Co-Herencia, 8(14), 113–130. Retrieved from https://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/co-herencia/article/view/279
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René González de la Vega, ITAM
ITAM, Mexico DF. PhD (c) Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (KUB), Belgium. Master of Legal Theory, European Academy of Legal Theory, Brussels, Belgium.Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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