Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Tolerant Individual (Forst)
- Components
- Objection
- To tolerate something we must initially object to it on a
personal principle
- Acceptance
- This is balanced by our acceptance
that for whatever reason, the
objectionable activity must freely
continue
- Rejection
- Tolerance must have limits, so
if the objectionable action/belief
break the limits of acceptability,
we must stop it
- Conceptions
- Permission
- Where a majority makes
concessions to a minority,
but rights are
unequal/could be taken
away.
- In 1950s USA, a white person might not give
black people the right to ride in the front of
buses, but thinks that slavey is too extreme
- could just be seen as
another means of
asserting dominance
'tyranny of the
majority'
- Co-existence
- two groups with similar power
compromise to facilitate peace/social
stabilty
- Religious Peace of Augsburg 1555
- does not necessarily
mean they respect
eachother
- Respect
- Formal Equality (assimilation)
- Cultural differences are
limited to the private
sphere.
- wearing of Burqas in France
- Qualitative Equality (integration)
- Some public concessions made.
- Sikhs allowed not to wear
helmets on motorbikes in
Britain
- Fraternal/equal attitude
to opponent.
- Esteem
- There is respect or
esteem for certain
aspects of the
practice of an
opponent.
- Admiring the courage
of a soldier but
disagreeing with his
cause.
- However there still
is objection
- Not Tolerance
- Indifference
- you cannot tolerate
something you don't
specifically object to/have no
opinion on
- a person cannot tolerate racist
comments if they find nothing
objectionable within the comments
- Indulgence
- allowing something we disapprove of
because we are fond of the person and
want to 'indulge' them
- if a parent allows a
child to misbehave
frequently because
they don't want to tell
them off
- Weakness
- the inability to prevent
something implies an
inability to tolerate it
- being afraid to/inable to
express disapproval or change
the actions of the person you
disapprove of.
- a person in an abusive
relationship cannot tolerate their
partner's behaviour