Year: 2023 | Month: June | Volume 12 | Issue 2
The Distinction of Tolerance and Toleration — Also on the Limits of Tolerance
Shuang Li
DOI:10.46852/2249-6637.02.2023.8
Abstract:
Tolerance and toleration are a pair of terms with differences and complex relationships, and the connotations and differences
between them have always been different, and no clear and relatively consistent understanding has been formed in the academic
field. By examining them from a comprehensive perspective, we can find that the differences between tolerance and toleration are
mainly reflected in four aspects: status value, psychological expression, the object of concern, and contingency and inevitability.
Through the analysis, we can find that tolerance is a higher moral quality or ought-value, and its psychological mechanism is active
and proactive, while toleration is an essential requirement and a fundamental norm. Its psychological characteristics are mainly
passive and restrained. The analysis of the concept helps us to understand the value of tolerance to individuals and society, but
tolerance is not always valuable, and in the public and private spheres, tolerance or not is based on the reasonable limits of law and
moral conscience.
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