Publication Type

Monograph

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-1999

Abstract

Presenting a lecture[1] on the virtue of toleration anywhere, let alone in the chambers of the Australian Senate department, should strike most people as a peculiarly pointless kind of exercise. Would anyone not in favour of toleration bother to turn up? (And what is the point of preaching to the converted? Would anyone against it bother to listen? And could such a person be converted?) In truth, it might not be easy to find anyone who openly professed intolerance. Almost everyone is in favour of tolerance; though of course, each will hasten to add, this does not mean that ‘anything goes’.

Discipline

Comparative Politics | Ethics and Political Philosophy

Research Areas

Political Science

Volume

33

First Page

67

Last Page

82

ISSN

1031–976X

Publisher

Department of the Senate, Papers on Parliament

City or Country

Canberra

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/pops/pop33/kukathas

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