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ERIC Number: EJ1459355
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 16
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Is Liberal Tolerance under Threat?
Susan T. Gardner; Alex Newby; Taya Wall; Jason Chen; Ethan Belcourt-Lowe
Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, v44 n2 p28-43 2024
In his book "Liberalism and Its Discontents" (2020), Fukuyama argues that classical liberalism is under severe threat today (p. vii). Although such a claim is alarming, since strongly stated cases are not unusual in academic writing (e.g., Fukuyama once argued (2012) that we had reached the end of history in the sense of arriving at the pinnacle of human organization), on its own, a non-alarmist response seemed appropriate. Nonetheless, it prompted the authors to engage in further reading which, in turn, led them to ponder whether ignoring Fukuyama's claim might, in fact, be unethical. Since, despite their reading, the authors were still agnostic, it seemed premature to engage in a full-scale study. Instead, they decided to undertake a small informal study of their friends and acquaintances to see, on the one hand, what sort of measuring tool might be used to estimate whether a threat to classical liberalism had seeped into the ordinary everyday attitudes of ordinary everyday citizens, and on the other, whether there was any indication that a more extensive study in the future was warranted. This paper describes that effort.
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