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Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Toleration and the goods in conflict [ALASDAIR MacINTYRE] In this article, professor Alasdair Maclntyre draws attention to the concept of toleration. Although he endorses many of the conclusions of liberalism, and in particular agrees that the state ought not to impose any conception of the good on those who live under it, he denies that this refusal to impose is a manifestation of neutrality. On the contrary, he argues, the vocabulary of the modern liberal state is the vocabulary of rights and utility, and thus the liberal state, far from being neutral is commited to certain sort of value. This lack of neutrality is dangerous when the state takes upon itself the role of promoting autonomy because the development of genuine autonomy requires allegiances to smaller groups whose values may be in conflict with the values of the overarching state. Then MacIntyre points out that in addressing' problems of toleration we must be careful to understand what it is that we are being asked to be tolerant of.
