Education, Essentialism and the Epistemic Vices of Intolerance

This essay focuses on one of the core problems that pervade contemporary debates about democratic education in general and education for tolerance in particular: What is the specific relation between epistemic virtues and vices and political toleration as a democratic virtue and as an aim of education? In this chapter, the author argues to show that political intolerance usually is accompanied by (and arguably also at least partly caused by) epistemic vices, which can and should be counteracted by education for tolerance