Tolerance : Experiments with Freedom in the Netherlands

• Main Author: Maris, Cees (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 124
• Subjects: Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Political philosophy.; Political theory.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Philosophy.; Political Theory.

This book presents a collection of philosophical essays on freedom and tolerance in the Netherlands. It explores liberal freedom and its limits in areas such as freedom of speech, public reason, sexual morality, euthanasia, drugs policy, and minority rights. The book takes Dutch practices as exempla...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Can We Learn from History? A Letter to Mr John Locke, Philosopher
• Sex, Morality and Law
• My Story: Ascertaining the Truth in Cases of Incest
• Dutch Weed and Logic
• I Have No Regrets: Dutch Euthanasia
• One of Us: On Human Identity and Freaky Justice
• We Want Our Freedom: Slavery and Public Reason
• I Have Cleansed My Honour: Multiculturalism and the Dutch Pillar System
• Close the Borders!: Dutch Intolerance and Freedom of Speech
• Laïcité in the Low Countries? On Headscarves in a Neutral State
• Coda: The End of Tolerance?