%0 Journal Article
%T Selling tolerance by the pound: On ideal types¡¯ fragility, A£¿oka¡¯s edicts and the political theology of toleration in and beyond South Asia
%A Federico Squarcini
%J Philosophy & Social Criticism
%@ 1461-734X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0191453719829852
%X In recent times, scholars of precolonial South Asia have been solicited to take part in public debates regarding ¡®ancient traditions of tolerance¡¯. The general idea is to request them to collect and exhibit ¡®evidence¡¯ and exempla from classics and historical sources about political and practical form of tolerance, so to permit non-specialists to learn from the past and to derive behavioural patterns from ¡®historical samples¡¯. Nevertheless, although the patriarchal motto ¡®historia magistra vitae¡¯ is still widely believed, looking at the past is not that smooth and easy, as can be seen from the problematic history of the reception of the paradigmatic figure of A£¿oka
%K A£¿oka
%K dharma
%K political theology
%K semiotic of law
%K tolerance
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0191453719829852