Overview
- Covers Dutch tolerance from the perspective of contemporary political philosophy
- Discusses pressing political issues, such as freedom of speech, drugs policy and sexual morality
- Relates political philosophy to political practice?
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 124)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Keywords
- Dutch Tolerance
- Drug Policy
- Freedom of Discriminatory Speech
- Freedom of expression
- Gay Marriage
- Headscarves in a Neutral State
- Honour Killing
- John Locke
- Laïcité in the Low Countries
- Liberal theory
- Liberalism, nationalism and multiculturalism
- Limits of Sexual Freedom
- Moral code
- Pillars of Tolerance
- Pornography
- Religion, Slavery and Public Reason
- Rights of children
- Sexual morality
- Women’s emancipation
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Cornelis Willem (Cees) Maris is emeritus Professor of Legal Philosophy and Legal Sociology at the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam. He is also Visiting Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Curaçao.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tolerance : Experiments with Freedom in the Netherlands
Authors: Cees Maris
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89346-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89344-0Published: 26 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07745-7Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89346-4Published: 27 August 2018
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 410
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Political Theory