A trajetória e os desafios da tolerância no mundo contemporâneo e o seu papel na efetivação dos direitos humanos

Abstract

This work initially analyzes the historical trajectory of the concept of tolerance and its philosophical dimension indicating how it was related to religion and to the idea of creating, among individuals, conditions for the coexistence of different beliefs. Then we demonstrate how tolerance had its concept amplified on the contemporaneity’s scope, covering the coexistence between the subjects in its multiple forms and of being and living in society as well. The idea of tolerance has evolved, thus, assuming the condition of cornerstone of a free and pacific life. Likewise, this work indicates how tolerance requires the contribution of recognition through the rescue of the notions of identity and alterity. Lastly, by taking the totalitarianism as the expression of intolerance, violence and barbarity, this work demonstrates how tolerance can be constituted as an antidote against the extreme phenomena and mainly how tolerance is imposed as a fundamental instrument to historical affirmation and, above all, to the realization of human rights and democracy.