Toleration and Freedom from Harm

Toleration contributes to individuals leading good lives and to societies that are efficient and just. There are personal and social matters that would be improved by taking toleration to be a fundamental value. This book develops a full account of toleration: what it is, why and when it matters, and how it should be manifested in a just society.

Andrew Jason Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of Toleration (2014).

Introduction Part I: Conceptual and Grounding Issues 1. What Toleration is Not 2. What Toleration Is 3. The Harm Principle and the Nature of Harm 4. General Defenses of Toleration 5. Freedom from Harm Part II: Normative Issues 6. The Harm Principle 7. Rejecting the Harm Principle: The Sovereignty Principle, Legal Moralism, Legal Paternalism 8. Toleration, Families, and Licensing 9. Toleration and Groups 10. Toleration Internationally Conclusion