- Title
- Toleration and Respect
- Creator
- Tate, John William
- Relation
- The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration p. 583-614
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42121-2_40
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- “Respect” is a highly resonant norm carrying significant moral weight. It is therefore a norm which will inevitably be contested, in terms of its meaning and application to specific circumstances, given that many will want to associate their own entitlements with it. This chapter focuses on the relationship between “respect” and toleration. It considers the manner in which “respect” has been used as a norm to justify toleration and to what extent its meaning and application is contested in this context. It also looks at the history of “respect,” within the liberal tradition, and the entitlements and obligations with which, within this tradition, it has been associated. The chapter then seeks to apply the concepts of toleration and “respect” to specific circumstances, centered on the burqa, niqab, and the free speech issue of blasphemy. This application shows once more how “respect” is a highly contested and contentious norm, both in terms of its meaning and the attempts of competing parties to associate their agenda with it. The chapter ends by focusing more intensively on issues of “respect” as they apply to free speech and toleration. This focus centers, once again, on blasphemy and considers the extent to which blasphemous speech ought to be tolerated, and the “free speech” imperatives underwriting such toleration “respected,” if it gives rise to violent consequences.
- Subject
- toleration; multiculturalism; respect; John Locke; Immanuel Kant; John Stuart Mill
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1485943
- Identifier
- uon:51727
- Identifier
- ISBN:97830304212053030421201
- Language
- eng
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