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The prevalence of dystopias—whether in the form of terrorism, human trafficking or erosion of constitutional democracies—has touched on our philosophical work to the extent that we were urged to respond to such undesirable human actions. This book in itself is one such response, particularly having taken up the task of making a case for tolerance within educational encounters as a way of rupturing dystopic realities and potentialities with which we are faced in education. In this chapter, we draw on Hannah Arendt’s (Responsibility and judgment (J. Kohn, Ed.). New York, NY: Shocken Books, 2003) notion of judgment to analyze how tolerant educational encounters would unfold. Influenced by her thoughts in Responsibility and judgment (Arendt, Responsibility and judgment (J. Kohn, Ed.). New York, NY: Shocken Books, 2003), we examine what the implications of judgment would be for an enactment of tolerance within educational encounters.
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Davids, N., Waghid, Y. (2017). Judgment, Forgiveness, Tolerance and Educational Encounters. In: Tolerance and Dissent within Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58109-5_8
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