Tolerant Society

Tolerant Society

advantages
1. Respect for autonomy
2. The role of the state is to ensure the basic natural rights of its citizens
3. religious values are NOT certainties
4. pragmatism - fear of strife
5. ineffectiveness of coercion
6. potential economic advantage?
7. experiments in living
disadvantages
1. Inflation of Politic correctness
2. Freedom of Extremism/fundamentalism
3. Harm Principle
4. Devlin - morality is never private therefore it is the business of the state
5. fallability
paradoxes
1. Repressive Desublimation
  1. offers the immediate gratification of instinctive desires rather than the deferred or mediated gratification of higher desires
    1. pornography, offers a semblance of freedom and sexual liberation, but is purely voyeristic and synthesised, meaning it is spiritually hollow
  2. Repressive tolerance
2. Tolerance itself is a paradox
3. a tolerant society cannot tolerate something it has no objection to therefore it must have some predisposed opinion in order to be tolerant
4. Tolerating the intolerant
5. false needs
philosophers
1. Locke
  1. the state should exist purely to ensure the basic natural rights of its citizens
2. Rawls
  1. argues the need for neutrality in a society, one conception of good should not be promoted over another
3. Devlin
  1. morality is public - it is the job of the state to enforce a common morality
    1. example of alcoholic or drawing dole
4. Bodin
  1. religious tolerance and diversity=civil unity, so the state must be a non-religious organisation
5. Mill
  1. Diversity allows for experiments in living
  2. the harm principle - rejection can be employed when the actions/beliefs of a person directly physically or mentally harm others in the society
  3. autonomy, the ability to develop in the way you see fit is key to a healthy functioning society

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