The jigsaw puzzle of toleration
Toleration is a jigsaw puzzle. In this Toleration Campaign I produce several new pieces every month, which will eventually all fit together. With a jigsaw puzzle you can see on the box how the puzzle will eventually look. Something similar applies to this page.
Classical sources of our understanding of toleration
Epistemology and skepticism | Dialectics | Moral skepticism | Stoicism | Humanitas and forgiveness | Liberty and equality in Antiquity | Classical pragmatism
Toleration in world religions
Toleration in the history of Christianity
The Old Testament | Jesus | Paul | The Christian law | Augustine and the heretics | Pagans and slaves | The Church and the State | The just war against Islam | Christians and Jews | Erasmus | The Reformation | Religious intolerance | Religious pragmatism in France: the politiques | The pragmatism of William of Orange | Mind the economy | Christian morality scrutinised | Free conscience | The mediaeval conscience | Freedom of conscience after the Reformation | Freedom of conscience as a right | Modernity
Religious toleration in Judaism
A Very Brief History of Judaism | The Jewish Patchwork | A people apart | Sexual toleration in Judaism | toleration of dissenters | Conversion and Apostasy | Relations with other religions
Religious toleration in Islam
History of Islam in a nutshell | Islamic theology in a nutshell | Development of the concept of toleration in Islam | Religious toleration for Jews and Christians | Heresy and apostasy in Islam | Behavioral toleration in Islam | Human rights and Islam
Toleration in Buddhism
Buddha's teaching | Currents in Buddhism | Multiple truths | Dharma in the course of history | Islam comes alongside | Mongolian rulers | Tibet | Civil war in Sri Lanka | Hybrid Buddhism | Buddhist Social and Political Ethics | Buddhist Precepts | Buddhism and State Affairs | Low Prosperity | Religious toleration | Behavioral toleration | Sexual toleration
Toleration in Hinduism
Norms in Hinduism | Relations with other religions | Repentance and apostasy
Toleration and ethics
The ladies’ table | Human dignity | Natural rights | Against human rights | The effects of human rights
Genetic morality | Evolutionary game theory | Cultural morality | Meta-ethics | Virtue and happiness | Kantian deontology | Utilitarianism | Morality and toleration
Equality
Man as egalitarian | Sauce for the goose and sauce for the gander | Are we morally equal? | Solidarity in communities | Systematic governance and democratic equality | Equitable redistribution | Redistribution of what? | Enough redistribution | Identity and equality | Equality and toleration
Freedom and autonomy
Want but can't | Will, interest and options | Everything has a cause, doesn't it? | The will according to Kant | How much freedom can you expect? | Terms of autonomy | Positive freedom | Influence and manipulation | The Good Life | Autonomy as a social ideal
Intolerance
Paternalism
Three angles | The harm principle | Paternalism and human dignity | Irrationality | Good reasons for paternalism
Crime and punishment
The function of criminal law | Why is something criminal? | Mick and Roshita | Deterrence as prevention | Retaliation | History of mild punishment | Recidivism in the picture | Deterrence, chance of being caught and punishment | Tolerant punishment
Us and them
Motives for violence and aggression | The fiercest group conflicts | Groupthink | The dynamics of group conflict | Xenophobia, discrimination and racism | Nationalism | The common enemy and the scapegoat | Radicalization | Violence from below | The rot starts at the head | How to resolve a group conflict?
Applications
Pragmatic toleration
Religious Pragmatism in the Netherlands | Colonial pragmatism
Religious toleration
The Function of Religion | Interreligious toleration | Development of toleration in Christianity | The ideal of toleration in other world religions | Feeding religious intolerance
Freedom of conscience
Say what you think | Political toleration | Censorship in England and the Netherlands | Censorship in Europe in the 18th Century | Censorship after the French Revolution | The harm principle and the precautionary principle | Hate spray | Polarization
Mussolini’s rise to power | When the electorate is fed up with democracy | The paradox of toleration | Ban on antidemocratic parties? Arguments against | Ban on antidemocratic parties? Arguments in favour | Banning political parties | Democracy and tyranny | Democratic innovation
Behavioral toleration
Wrong behavior | Criminal behavior | Paternalism | Punishment
Sexual toleration
Genetic Morality | Cultural Norms | Incest | Pedosexuality | Homosexuality | Other sexuality | Sex and the World's Religions
Economic toleration
What is Economic toleration? | The moral laws of economics | Radical economic toleration | The intolerance of government intervention | Social toleration and trade | Trade, modernity and institutions
Social toleration
Alien aversion | Cultures | Assimilation or multiculturalism
Toleration and prosperity
The prosperity of Amsterdam | The relationship between toleration and prosperity | The prosperity explosion | Causes of the Industrial Revolution | Why in England? | Knowledge, allocation, trust and infrastructure | Elites | Why liberalization doesn't always work | What does work? | Institutions | What is innovation? | A crazy mix | Creative destruction | Asian tigers | Innovative transformation