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Toleration, Identity, and Difference.(Review) (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, December, 1999 by Budziszewski, Jay
Toleration, Identity, and Difference. Edited by John Horton and Susan Mendus. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 200p. $65.00.
John Rawls tells us in Political Liberalism (1993) that modern democratic society is characterized not only by a plurality of doctrines but also by a plurality of "comprehensive" doctrines that are incompatible, yet reasonable. How, then, can we agree about what justice requires us to tolerate? His solution: Fundamental disagreements must be privatized. In publicly defending their views, citizens and officials should simply make no appeal to their ...
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