Conceptul de toleranță
The concept of tolerance

Summary/Abstract: Alarmed with the escalation of intolerance, violence, xenophobia, aggressive nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism, exclusion and marginalization of the ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, the Member States of UNESCO have proclaimed and signed in Paris, on 16 November 1995, the Declaration of the Principles of Tolerance. The Declaration defines tolerance as the respect, acceptance and appreciation of the richness and diversity of our world's cultures, our manners of expression and our ways to express our capacity as human beings. Viewed in parallel to honesty, tolerance demands us to treat the others just we would like to be treated ourselves by the others. The Christian doctrine has been teaching us from immemorial times the following guiding maxim: “Do not do to others as you would have them not do to you”. However, we realize today that honesty makes us acknowledge that such tolerant an attitude is the result of hardly facile an option that presupposes give-ups, re-evaluations and self-constrictions.

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