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Volume 14, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1751-1917
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Abstract

In the context of longstanding debates about the meaning of toleration and current significant disagreements within society, we offer a discussion about several key areas of debate and sketch broadly some responses in higher education. Following contextual remarks about key philosophical perspectives and reference to particular disputes within society, generally in society and particularly on university campuses, about free speech relating to terrorism and 'lad culture', we draw attention to issues about toleration. These are relationship with self; the public–private interface; levels or degrees of toleration regarding action; and the limits to toleration. We then develop more precisely framed connections for a particular characterization of toleration within higher education.

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