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The nature and scope of political toleration is a matter of much controversy within liberal democratic politics. This chapter suggests that toleration itself should be understood as emerging from the practice of adjudicating likely irreconcilable goods with an eye toward individual agency. Further, it shows that political toleration is best understood as what a number of scholars have described as “substantive neutrality,” where the liberal state aspires to remain neutral among different ways of life and is committed to redressing inequities arising from that effort to remain neutral.
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McGraw, B.T. (2022). Political Toleration as Substantive Neutrality. In: Sardoč, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42121-2_42
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