<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<p>In this paper, T. M. Murray defends a vision of liberal tolerance as grounding the common good. She critiques the discourse that Western liberalism amounts to ‘Islamophobia’ or ‘cultural imperialism’. She argues that liberal academics, in maintaining these narratives, contradict their own vaunted values and tacitly collude with religious hypocrisy and intolerance. She argues for a universal vision of the common good broadly grounded in human flourishing and human nature and linked to the philosophies of Aristotle and J. S. Mill.</p>
</abstract>

In this paper, T. M. Murray defends a vision of liberal tolerance as grounding the common good. She critiques the discourse that Western liberalism amounts to ‘Islamophobia’ or ‘cultural imperialism’. She argues that liberal academics, in maintaining these narratives, contradict their own vaunted values and tacitly collude with religious hypocrisy and intolerance. She argues for a universal vision of the common good broadly grounded in human flourishing and human nature and linked to the philosophies of Aristotle and J. S. Mill.

The Tolerant Society and its Enemies: Moral Relativism, Multiculturalism, and Islamism

Perichoresis

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

In this paper, T. M. Murray defends a vision of liberal tolerance as grounding the common good. She critiques the discourse that Western liberalism amounts to...

The Tolerant Society and its Enemies: Moral Relativism, Multiculturalism, and Islamism

Published Online: Oct 22, 2021

Page range: 113 - 131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2021-0020

Keywords
multiculturalism, liberalism, tolerance, universalism, relativism

© 2021 T. M. Murray, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Tolerant Society and its Enemies: Moral Relativism, Multiculturalism, and Islamism

Published Online: Oct 22, 2021

Page range: 113 - 131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2021-0020

Keywordsmulticulturalism, liberalism, tolerance, universalism, relativism

© 2021 T. M. Murray, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
multiculturalism, liberalism, tolerance, universalism, relativism