Liberalism and Toleration – a Tricky
Combination
(This a revised and expanded version of
post from November 2015 on Toleration and replaces that post)
Most people would probably
agree that toleration is an essential component of liberalism, even if, if
pressed, people’s definition of “liberalism” may differ wildly. Nonetheless, it
is broadly true that modern liberalism, in most of its guises, has a large part
of its origin in developing theories of toleration.
