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The Open Society and Utility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Alan Ryan
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I HOPE I SHALL OFFEND NEITHER PROFESSOR CRICK NOR DR KING if I do not discuss their papers in detail. With almost all they say I have no disagreement; and to what they say I think I have little to add. The first thing I wish to do is pursue a point which Crick makes early on in his paper and then drops. Crick says there that one aspect of toleration is ‘putting up with’ whatever it might be; to say that the weather, one's colleagues, or last night's party were ‘tolerable’ amounts to saying that one could put up with them. Of course, as he and King agree, to call any of these tolerable certainly implies that we did not actually like or enjoy it or them; whatever we regard with favour we do not simply tolerate. Crick thinks there is not much to be done with the notion of ‘putting up with’ something; but I shall try to show that we can get further than he thinks.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1971 , pp. 235 - 242
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1971

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References

1 See Crick above, p. 145.

2 Ibid., p. 146.

3 Ibid., p. 144.I ought not, for example, to tolerate your being assaulted; there is no virtue in my tolerating the evils done to others.

4 See King above, p. 172. where a religion is described as disapproved and as disliked as if the expressions are equivalent; see also Crick throughout.

5 See Crick above, p. 151.

6 Ibid., p. 144.

7 Thucydides: Pelopponesian War I, 38–40.

8 Republic VIII, 555–61, Cornford ed., pp. 274–80.

9 For example, Republic VIII, 546–8, Cornford, pp. 262–4.

10 Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government, Everyman Library, pp. 70–1.

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12 Op. cit., pp. 72–3.

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14 See Crick above, p. 153.

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19 Op. cit., Preface.

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24 Karl Popper, Cf., The Open Society and Its Enemies, London, 1962, Vol.1, ch. 10Google Scholar.

25 See, e.g. W. G. Runciman, Sociology in its Place, ch. 3.

26 Natural Symbols, ch. II, pp. 156–7.

27 Mill, op. cit., p. 115.