Nowadays toleration is often understood as a pragmatic principle
leading social coexistence. In this way, it becomes something extremely
fragile. Instead, the authentic toleration has a strong hermeneutical
justification: truth doesn't appear but in the many and irreducible
historical, psychological and cultural diversity of human experiences.
Tolerating diversity means respecting the hermeneutical property of
truth. Toleration has its limits. An empiric criterion to individualize
the tolerable diversity is the claim to rights, because that who claims
a right pretends this claim to be, if not universal, at least general. Francesco D'agostino
Key words: Toleration, Truth, Philosophy of Law.
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Nº 201, mayo-agosto 1995 
