Mere civility : disagreement and the limits of toleration / Teresa M. Bejan.
Mere civility : disagreement and the limits of toleration / Teresa M. Bejan.
Mere civility : disagreement and the limits of toleration / Teresa M. Bejan.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/2749
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English
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x, 272 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: Wars of words -- "Persecution of the tongue": Toleration and the rise of religious insult -- "Silver alarums": Roger Williams's "mere" civility -- "If it be without contention": Hobbes and civil silence -- "A bond of mutual charity": Locke and the quest for concord -- Conclusion: The v...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Date Published
2017.
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Civility is often treated as an essential virtue in liberal democracies that promise to protect diversity as well as active disagreement in the public sphere. Yet the fear that our tolerant society faces a crisis of incivility is gaining ground. Politicians and public intellectuals call for "more civility" as the solution--but is civility really a...
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Mere civility : disagreement and the limits of toleration / Teresa M. Bejan.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2013).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index.
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G 2017/2749
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74VKVaQJo0x3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQJo0x3
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9780674545496
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177.1
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991024104315402626
