Toleration Matters

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I am trying to think trough how this argument for toleration would hold up to some of the objections to it, which i see. How is it that something like mills's conception of tolerance, and particularly mill's worries about us potentially being wrong about what is true or false, as having often changed our mind historically? I've been historically a free speech hard liner, therefore not very sympathetic to arguments for restricting hate speech. But on the other hand, we want tolerance to be a norm. We want the idea that all people are equal to be somehow a norm. Are we being inconsistent about that right?

T. M. Scanlon, one of the world's preeminent moral philosophers, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University until his retirement. In his seminal work, What We Owe to Each Other, Scanlon gives a liberal account of how to reason through what it takes to act justly in matters of morality as well as politics.

In this week’s conversation, T. M. Scanlon and Yascha Mounk discuss the true meaning of tolerance, how to decide whether an action is morally right or wrong, and why the question of free will isn’t as important as you might think.

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