Принципът на толерантността от гледна точка на политическата теория
The Principle of Tolerance in Terms of Political and Legal Theory

Author(s): Dimitar Hanev
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political Theory, Politics and law, Politics and society
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: tolerance; political theory
Summary/Abstract: Though the idea of toleration can be found as a virtue still in the classical authors of antiquity, the real centering of this topic as part of the political, philosophical and legal discourse of modern societies dates back actually to the Protestant revolution and the followed-up religious and political conflicts in Europe. In such a way the debate about toleration spread mainly on the idea of the political compliance, which means nothing but co-existence of groups of people, professing different kinds of religious beliefs. In this context not less important should also be the problem of where the religious differences really end, and where the differences based on the ethnic and cultural affiliation start. But even extended in this way the problem of toleration seen solely as based on differences arose as a result of the socio-historical evolution of separate groups of people, turns out to be only a special case of a larger and more general principle. This principle, to some extent, determined the accepted and legitimate state of the liberal-democratic societies in our days.

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