Year 1995
Nº 201, mayo-agosto 1995
Toleration and the enthusiastic defence of truth | Toleration and the enthusiastic defence of truth |
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| Written by Alfonso López Quintás | |
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The author maintains that a tolerant person is not like a "permissive"
one, a person that is indifferent to values and truth. Defending truth
doesn't mean being dogmatic or intolerant. Defending something means
that one is convinced of having found the truth, but not the whole
truth, and so s/he is in the best attitude to collaborate with other
people -even if s/he doesn't agree with them- in order to complete
his/her view. This collaboration is a "reversible experience", a way of
"encounter". Every reversible experience is tolerant in itself.
Toleration in this deep meaning can be achieved through an educational
program in five steps, whose main elements are explained by the author.
Alfonso López Quintás Key words: Toleration, Truth, Intersubjectivity. Esta colaboración es una “experiencia reversible”, una especie de “encuentro”. Cada experiencia reversible es tolerante en sí misma. La tolerancia, bien entendida, puede ser adquirida a través de un programa educativo en cinco fases, cuyos elementos básicos son explanados por el autor en este artículo. Alfonso López Quintás. Descriptores: Tolerancia, Verdad, Intersubjetividad. |