Moral Legalism and Tolerance. Chronicle of a Foretold Death.

Abstract

This paper explores the question about the compatibility that may exist between the moral ideal of tolerance and the structure of practical reasoning defended by deontological liberalism. This is the kind of liberalism that arose in the second half of the twentieth century with the publication of John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice; where we can find a development of the idea of tolerance and the role it plays solving practical conflicts.