Paradox of tolerance
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The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermi
Karl Popper wrote on tolerance of intolerance in Vol. 1 of The Open Society and Its Enemies, published in 1945.
Personification of Tolerance, a statue displayed in Lužánky park in Brno, Czech Republic
John Rawls
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John Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher, most active in moral, legal, and political philosophy. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential modern liberal political philosophers of
Paradox of tolerance
…has been widely discussed within ethics and political philosophy, with varying views on how tolerant societies should respond to intolerant forces. John Rawls, for instance, argued that a just society should generally tolerate the intolerant, reserving self-preserving actions for only when intolerance poses…
Rawls in 1971
Rawls as a Kent School senior, 1937
Rawls in the Princeton University yearbook, 1943
A Theory of Justice, 1st ed.