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In light of the contested nature of the limits of toleration, the criteria used to determine these limits are considered. A radical deconstruction of toleration exposes it as a normatively dependent concept, requiring a clear definition. Such a definition centers on six characteristics: the context, an objection component, an acceptance component, specification of the limits of toleration, a requirement of voluntary practice of toleration, & the distinction between toleration practice & the attitude tolerance. From this, a "permission" & "respect" conception of toleration are developed. Attention is given to the latter & its relation to justice, which provides the basis for a justifiable distinction between the three realms of (1) one's ethical views, (2) different views that are tolerable, & (3) different views that are not tolerable. The problem with a perspective on democratic community defined only by an abstract principle of justification is then discussed & rejected, but some remarks are offered on the moral-cultural basis for a democratic & liberal state. From there, some thought is given to the example of right-wing radicalism. The dangers of advocating tolerance are touched on in terms of its ambivalent nature, & a call is made instead to confront prejudice & develop basic respect. J. Zendejas

"John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative prose intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on Early Modern literature and the development of the early nation-state"--

DR KING AND PROFESSOR CRICK ARE BOTH MAINLY CONCERNED TO discuss the concept of tolerance as the deliberate acceptance of what is disapproved. They wish to reserve the use of the word 'toleration' for a variation upon this general idea, but their proposals are not quite the same. Dr King wants to use 'toleration' as 'a label for those ideas, doctrines, ideologies or movements' which have opposed specific types of intolerance. The dictionary label for this is 'tolerationism'. Toleration is what the ideas, doctrines, etc. advocate; it is not a label for the ideas and doctrines themselves. Professor Crick, at the beginning of his paper, says that he too will use the word 'toleration' for 'theories or doctrines' which advocate a form of tolerance. But his actual usage later on suggests that he did not intend the word to mean the theories or doctrines; rather that he proposed to say a doctrine was a doctrine of toleration if it advocated a certain kind of tolerance. His distinction between 'tolerance' and 'toleration' is intended to restrict 'toleration' to tolerance in general, tolerance of wide classes of action, and not to use it for tolerance of one specific type, e.g. tolerance of religious worship (which is how it is in fact used in the Act of Toleration and in Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration).

The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses has provoked fierce debate about the scope of toleration in a modern multicultural society. This volume explores the philosophical issues arising from this debate from a variety of points of view. It includes both general discussions of the relationship between liberalism, toleration and multiculturalism, and several essays devoted specifically to the implications of the Rushdie affair for liberal political theory and its practical commitment to toleration

Nicholas Jolley argues that Locke's three greatest works - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia - are unified by a concern to promote the cause of religious toleration. Jolley shows how Locke uses the principles of his theory of knowledge to criticize religious persecution.

John Locke's subtle and influential defense of religious toleration as argued in his seminal Letter Concerning Toleration (1685) appears in this edition as introduced by one of our most distinguished political theorists and historians of political thought. An Introduction is provided by James H. Tully, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria

Plato's Socrates appears to endorse a dictatorial set of political policies based on a dogmatic certainty about the nature of cosmic and human things. Suggests that this image of Plato's political theory is seriously distorted and that it is advantageous for Socrates to practice and endorse a certain kind of toleration while, nonetheless, rejecting the theoretical position on which liberal tolerance rests. (JLN)