Moral Aversion Versus Political Toleration: The Problem of Moral Salience in a Post-Liberal Age

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (60 minute)

Description

Panelists weigh in on morals, politics, and the question of toleration in an increasingly post-liberal era. How should we as social scientists understand and describe moral and political differences? And how should we as citizens adjudicate them? How do people choose what to tolerate and what to protest? How do people know the threshold between the two, and how do they respond when others put that threshold somewhere else. Panelists can answer these questions primarily as a descriptive social scientist, as an active citizen, or as a combination of the two.

Sub Unit

• Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section / Moral Aversion Versus Political Toleration: The Problem of Moral Salience in a Post-Liberal Age

Presider

• Jeffrey Guhin, University of California-Los Angeles

Panelists

• Steven Michael Lukes

• Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa

• Francesca Polletta, University of California-Irvine

Session Organizer

• Jeffrey Guhin, University of California-Los Angeles