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“ . . . “Toleration was a way of setting aside, as strictly private, the difficult metaphysical and theological dimensions of public life.” Western societies could for a long time get away with this pattern of avoidance because of the “large residue of assumptions about the nature of human life and human destiny” which survived the dismantling of Christendom. But Conyers wondered how long a society could survive by ignoring such substantive questions. What happens to a society when the strategy of tolerance has been practiced for so long that no truths are any longer self-evident? We are late enough in the modern project to ask such a question, and we may be witnessing the initial phases of an answer. . . . ”
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