Toleration is becoming an increasingly questioned issue in modern democratic and multicultural societies and is debated within the academic disciplines of politics, history, cultural and literary studies. In this book Glen Newey systematically analyses toleration in relation to broader issues in meta-ethical theory and offers a new, rigorous philosophical account of toleration as a virtue." "As a unique contribution to the toleration debate, this book will be of importance to all those with an interest in political theory, philosophy and ethics.