- Title
- Toleration and its Possibilities: Relativism, Skepticism and Pluralism
- Creator
- Tate, John William
- Relation
- Palgrave Handbook of Toleration p. 363-396
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42121-2_2
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Does a situation of “relativism,” wherein we lack the normative resources to make categorical distinctions and objective evaluations between competing moral values, practices, or ways of life, affirm or undermine our capacity to engage in toleration? The following chapter seeks to address this question but, in order to do so, finds it necessary to compare the position of “relativism,” in this respect, with that of “pluralism,” “skepticism,” and “indifference.” Relativism, pluralism, and skepticism are widely perceived by many as indelible features of our moral universe. But do they inevitably produce a situation in which toleration is endorsed as the preferred means to respond to competing and conflicting beliefs, practices, or ways of life? Or do they undermine any prescriptive capacity we might have to place a priority on toleration in such circumstances, perhaps even precluding the possibility of engaging in toleration altogether?
- Subject
- relativism; pluralism; skepticism; indifference; value pluralism; goods
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1485916
- Identifier
- uon:51724
- Identifier
- ISBN:97830304212053030421201
- Language
- eng
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