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11 Mar 2008 06:00 pm
Believers, Non-Believers, And Respect
We can tolerate people who hold what we think are false beliefs. But can we respect them? Here's an honest attempt to wrestle with the core issues of toleration by Harry Brighouse at Crooked Timber. Money quote:
There is a gap between certainty of one’s own infallibility and
very-close-to-certainty that one is right, and that gap is what makes
respect possible.
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Excerpt: Harry Brighouse over at Crooked Timber has an interesting post about how he, as an atheist, can respect religious people. He contrasts this view to that of Simon Blackburn who argues that its possible to tolerate religious people but not
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Rules for Respect
Excerpt: Harry Brighouse over at Crooked Timber has an interesting post about how he, as an atheist, can respect religious people. He contrasts this view to that of Simon Blackburn who argues that its possible to tolerate religious people but not
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