Liberalism, Multiculturalism and Toleration

Abstract

All modern liberal democratic societies are marked by diversity and difference — differences of ethnicity, culture and religion in addition to the many individual differences which characterise the members of such societies. Traditionally liberalism has been pictured as celebrating much of this diversity, or as at least tolerant of many differences which might not be thought valuable. Yet it has become clear that the relationship between liberalism, pluralism, especially multiculturalism, and toleration is much more problematic than this simple and comforting picture suggests. In particular, while not a new problem, it has become an increasingly urgent issue of theory and practice as to how tolerant liberalism is, or can be, of cultural and religious groups which do not themselves subscribe unreservedly or without qualification to what have been taken to be the basic values of liberalism. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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