Democracy, Tolerance, Aquinas

Democracy is more than a collection of institutions, laws, and freely contested sources of authority. It is also an ideal. If we think of this ideal in republican terms, in terms of resistance to domination through the practices of mutual accountability, and if we recall that democratic life invariably comes with loss, then those of us who inhabit a democratic political society will need to locate, and then cultivate, responses to loss that do not undermine our commitment to this ideal. Tolerance, one such response, is widely recognized and yet poorly theorized. Thomas Aquinas did not recognize it, but he did praise and endorse its act, toleration, and he does offer resources for bringing the virtue into focus and identifying some of the distinguishing features of its democratic variant

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• Relativism or tolerance? Defining, assessing, connecting, and distinguishing two moral personality features with prominent roles in modern societies

  Open Access•Lauren Collier‐Spruel, Ashley Hawkins et al.•Journal of Personality•2019

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• Democratic Civility and the Dangers of Niceness

  Ian Ward, I M Ward•Political Theology•2016

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• Aquinas and the Virtues of Hope

  Open Access•Michael Lamb•Journal of Religious Ethics•2016

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• On the Government of Rulers

  James M Blythe, Ptolemy of Lucca Ptolemy of Lucca et al.•On the Government of Rulers•1997

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• Political Thought in Europe, 1250–1450

  Open Access•Antony Black•Political Thought in Europe,…•1992

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• Putting On Virtue

  Jennifer A Herdt•Putting on Virtue•2008

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• The Augustinianism of Thomas Aquinas’s Moral Theory

  Thomas M Osborne•The Thomist: A Speculative…•2003

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• Liberal Purposes

  Open Access•William A Galston•Liberal Purposes•1991

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• Democracy and Tradition

  Jeffrey Stout, Jeffrey R Stout•Democracy and Tradition•2009

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• Talking to Strangers

  Danielle S Allen, Danielle Allen•Talking to Strangers•2004

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• Virtue or Art

  Open Access•Adam Eitel•Journal of Religious Ethics•2016

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• Moral Imagination

  David Bromwich, David H Bromwich•Moral Imagination•2014

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