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Believers, Non-Believers, And Respect

By The Daily Dish
Mar 11 2008, 6:00 AM ET

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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