Criticisms of autonomy-based justifications of toleration as an educational aim and as a
political principle assume that personal autonomy can provide only a partial justification of …

Public debates in our societies are marked by appeals to tradition, religion and even
manipulative uses of 'post-truth'. This book argues that the antidote to such tendencies can …

Recent discussion on the ethics of killer robots has focused on the supposed lack of respect
their deployment would show to combatants targeted, thereby causing their undignified …

This chapter presents the results of a small qualitative study designed to gain insight into
transgender and cisgender athletes' perceptions of fairness in the regulation and inclusion …

Liberalism advances democratic rights and representation through three principles. First, it
seeks to protect individuals from abusive state power. Second, it shares an affinity with the …

Religious Education: Educating for Diversity raises issues that are central to the theory and
practice of education, and in particular religious education, in modern liberal democracies …

According to the 'starting-gate'interpretation of equality of opportunity, individuals who enjoy
equal starts can legitimately become unequal to the extent that their differences derive from …

The argument 11 Setting the scene 12 The nature and challenge of diversity 18
Confessionalism and indoctrination 22 The liberal theological model and religious …

Although one of the fundamental pillars of liberalism, toleration has come to be seen as a
paradoxical value. This chapter explores four paradoxes surrounding toleration and …

Ivanhoe (2009, 312) states that the 'majority of contemporary Western philosophers who
accept the fact of ethical pluralism and take this as a cause for concern, tend to argue for …