Tolerance's Boundaries (2008-2009)
Dr. Otto Selles is a French professor at Calvin College. Dr. Selles has been selected as the 2008-2009 Calvin lecturer and will be speaking on the topic "Tolerance’s Boundaries."
Abstract of the lectures
Our world’s boundaries shrink each year as trade, communication, and culture globalize. And as countries, ethnic groups, and religious structures come in closer contact, conflict continues to escalate, highlighting the difficulty of bringing together people of different origins, faiths, and opinions. A sense and practice of tolerance would seem to hold the key to breaking down such boundaries, but tolerance has its own limits, which change according to our varying definitions of the intolerable. The lectures will consider how differing concepts of tolerance have developed and also political, religious, and social concerns that frame tolerance’s boundaries.
