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
Citation
KUKATHAS, Chandran, "Tolerating the intolerable" (1999). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 2943.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2943
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2943
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/pops/pop33/kukathas