Live and Let Live: A Critique of Intellectual Tolerance

ISBN-13: 9783662640395 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 153 str.

Dominik Balg

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. What does it mean to be epistemically tolerant?.- 3. Tolerance and relativism.- 4. Should we be tolerant?.- 5. General tolerance claims.- 6. Tolerance, open-mindedness, and humility.- 7. Concluding assessment and outlook.

O autorze

Dominik Balg studied philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Cologne and at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is currently a high school teacher of philosophy and German.

Blurb

Tolerance - desired by many and often demanded. But what exactly does it mean to be tolerant? Does tolerance imply rejection? Or is tolerance merely the opposite of dogmatism? And how does a tolerant attitude differ from an indifferent one? Starting from a well-founded explication of the concept of tolerance, Dominik Balg subjects a tolerant attitude as an intellectual attitude toward conflicting opinions to a detailed critique, discusses the plausibility of general demands for tolerance, and considers possible alternatives - sometimes with thoroughly surprising results.

This book is a translation of the original German 1^st edition Leben und leben lassen by Dominik Balg, published by J.B. Metzler, an imprint of Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.