The limits of virtue politics in an African context
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Olujohungbe, Benjamin Timi
Owoseni, Adewale O.
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Wiley
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This paper situates Karl Popper's ‘paradox of tolerance’ as foundation within the context of interrogating multifaceted violent identity politics propagated in contemporary Nigeria. The paper argues that the ‘active’ virtue of tolerance which requires that subjects within the Nigerian polity engage each other in rationally-driven discourse on issues of dissent does not presume long-suffering or passive endurance of violence propagated by a side of the dissenting divide. It is thus pertinent that an appropriate intervention by the Nigerian state delineating the limits of tolerance in the face of perennial intolerance and the proliferation of violent identity politics is inevitable.
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DATA OPENLY AVAILABLE IN A PUBLIC REPOSITORY THAT DOES NOT ISSUES DOIs. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL], reference number [reference number]. Academia.edu at https://www.academia.edu/11623971/Moral_Grounds_and_Limits_of_Tolerance.
DATA DERIVED FROM PUBLIC DOMAIN RESOURCES. The data that support the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI], reference number [reference number]. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at https://iep.utm.edu/tolerati/ Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08c9840f0b652dd00141e/wp6.pdf.
Keywords
Virtue politics, Nigeria, Tolerance, SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, Violence prevention
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SDG-16:Peace,justice and strong institutions
Citation
Olujohungbe, B.T. & Owoseni, A.O. 2024, 'The limits of virtue politics in an African context', Philosophical Forum, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 231-245, doi : 10.1111/phil.12363.