Mill, Philosophical Tolerance and Tragic Choice
Mill, Philosophical Tolerance and Tragic Choice

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines John Stuart Mill’s idea of philosophical tolerance. The goal of this paper is to show that the role of philosophical tolerance, in the light of the idea of tragic choice, should be extended. Mill saw philosophical tolerance as a corrective tool by which we can enrich and correct our own ideas. Tragic choice, however, entails that certain ideas and values are mutually exclusive. When faced with such a choice, one can not use philosophical tolerance as a method of justifying one’s own view, but as a tool to accept the loss and the sacrifice that has to be made.

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