:''This page is about "tolerance" as a social concept. For other uses and meanings please see physiological tolerance and tolerance (engineering).'' Tolerance is a sociology, culture and religion term applied to the collective and individual practice of not persecuting those who may believe, behave or act in ways of which one may not approve. Authoritarian systems practice the opposite of tolerance, intolerance. Tolerance is seen as a more widely acceptable term than "acceptance" and particularly "respect," where the application to controversial parties is concerned. Tolerance implies both the ability to punish and the conscious decision not to. It is usually applied to non-violent, consensual behavior, often involving religion, sex, or politics. It rarely permits violent behavior. In the wider sociological sense, "tolerance" carries with it the understanding that "intolerance" and conformity breeds violence and social instability. "Tolerance" has thus become the social term of choice to define the practical rationale of permitting uncommon social practice and diversity. One only tolerates people who are disliked for their differences. While people deemed undesirable may be disapproved of, "tolerance" would require that the party or group in question be left undisturbed, physically or otherwise, and that criticism directed toward them be free of inflammatory or inciteful efforts. == Politics and Religion== Historically, political and religious tolerance have been the most important aspects of tolerance, since differences of political and religious ideology have led to innumerable wars, purges and other atrocities. The philosophers and writers of the The Age of Enlightenment, especially Voltaire and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, promoted religious tolerance, and their influence is strongly felt in Western world society (see pluralism). Unfortunately, they failed to treat with sufficient rigor the equally important issue of political tolerance. While a lack religious tolerance causes problems in many regions of the world today, differences of political ideology caused hundreds of millions of deaths in the twentieth century alone. A desideratum of contemporary scholarship, therefore, is to develop a more expansive critical theory of political toleration. This is particularly urgent in the West, where the influence of religion in public policy making continues to decline, especially in Europe but also in North America. However, the unattributed quote ''"there's only one thing I can't tolerate - and that's intolerance"'' illustrates that there are limits to tolerance. In particular, a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, which would destroy it. It is difficult to strike a balance, however, and different societies do not always agree on the details. In some countries, the continuing suppression of Nazism in Germany is considered intolerant, for instance. Issues that may be controversial in various countries might include the separation of church and state, homosexuality, the consumption of tobacco, alcoholic beverages and other drugs, reading disapproved political tracts, and deviant sexual acts as well as the correct reaction to disorderly conduct and misdemeanours (see ''zero tolerance policy''). ==Tolerance as a virtue== As an Aristotelian virtue, tolerance is a middleground between softheadedness on the one hand (overtolerance) and narrow mindedness on the other (undertolerance). ==See also== *Autism rights movement *fat acceptance movement *freedom of religion *grey area *heresy *inquisition *Neurodiversity *penal laws *prejudice *religious pluralism ==External link== *[http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9308/budziszewski.html The Illusion of Moral Neutrality] *[http://sami119.tripod.com/shemaisrael/id31.html True & False Tolerance]
The first section seems a bit too dictionary-like. The cross-links are more useful than the definition, IMO. User:Mkmcconn Some content moved to Forty-nine charismatic virtues. User:Petermanchester 13:25, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- This really needs to also mention tolerance in manufacturing, particularly electronics. User:Radiojon 03:43, 2004 Apr 11 (UTC) --- I tried to edit but I can't. This entry has the strange effect of people who have been taught about Tolerance, and lectured about it, but have never felt it for a moment at first-hand. ''Tolerance cannot be neutral about what is good, though, for its very purpose is to guard good and avert evils. The circumstantial element in the practice of tolerance is right judgment of greater ends against lesser ends.'' Is not the natural conclusion to this sentence ''thus enabling lesser ends to be sacrificed to greater ends.'' I recognize the school of thinking, but it's not known for its tolerance. User:Wetman 19:11, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC) ==Old self== The following paragraph is strange, to me: :In Christianity, tolerance plays a part with regard to the one's former way of life, as a belief is often professed in the need to put off the old self that was corrupted by its deceitful desires (prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance), and be renewed in the spirit of the mind. Accompanying this is also a corresponding need to put on a new self, which was created to be like God, in righteousness and true holiness, which includes tolerance, It quotes from Ephesians 4:22. In that context, the "old self" and "former way of life" is "ignorance", "hardness of heart", surrender to "sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more". Can someone find "prejudice, bigotry and intolerance" in this? It strikes me as a misappropriation of a well-known text for a rare application. In other words, it sounds as though the editor was explaining himself, rather than explaining the Christian view of tolerance. User:MkmcconnUser Talk:Mkmcconn 02:42, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Tolerance as a conundrum== As evidenced by the statement, "There's only one thing I won't tolerate, and that's intolerance". The article leaves unclear the level of tolerance that is tolerable of the intolerant. User:Matthew Stannard 11:42, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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:''This page is about "tolerance" as a social concept. For other uses and meanings please see physiological tolerance and tolerance (engineering).'' Tolerance is a sociology, culture and religion term applied to the collective and individual practice of not persecuting those who may believe, behave or act in ways of which one may not approve. Authoritarian systems practice the opposite of tolerance, intolerance. Tolerance is seen as a more widely acceptable term than "acceptance" and particularly "respect," where the application to controversial parties is concerned. Tolerance implies both the ability to punish and the conscious decision not to. It is usually applied to non-violent, consensual behavior, often involving religion, sex, or politics. It rarely permits violent behavior. In the wider sociological sense, "tolerance" carries with it the understanding that "intolerance" and conformity breeds violence and social instability. "Tolerance" has thus become the social term of choice to define the practical rationale of permitting uncommon social practice and diversity. One only tolerates people who are disliked for their differences. While people deemed undesirable may be disapproved of, "tolerance" would require that the party or group in question be left undisturbed, physically or otherwise, and that criticism directed toward them be free of inflammatory or inciteful efforts. == Politics and Religion== Historically, political and religious tolerance have been the most important aspects of tolerance, since differences of political and religious ideology have led to innumerable wars, purges and other atrocities. The philosophers and writers of the The Age of Enlightenment, especially Voltaire and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, promoted religious tolerance, and their influence is strongly felt in Western world society (see pluralism). Unfortunately, they failed to treat with sufficient rigor the equally important issue of political tolerance. While a lack religious tolerance causes problems in many regions of the world today, differences of political ideology caused hundreds of millions of deaths in the twentieth century alone. A desideratum of contemporary scholarship, therefore, is to develop a more expansive critical theory of political toleration. This is particularly urgent in the West, where the influence of religion in public policy making continues to decline, especially in Europe but also in North America. However, the unattributed quote ''"there's only one thing I can't tolerate - and that's intolerance"'' illustrates that there are limits to tolerance. In particular, a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, which would destroy it. It is difficult to strike a balance, however, and different societies do not always agree on the details. In some countries, the continuing suppression of Nazism in Germany is considered intolerant, for instance. Issues that may be controversial in various countries might include the separation of church and state, homosexuality, the consumption of tobacco, alcoholic beverages and other drugs, reading disapproved political tracts, and deviant sexual acts as well as the correct reaction to disorderly conduct and misdemeanours (see ''zero tolerance policy''). ==Tolerance as a virtue== As an Aristotelian virtue, tolerance is a middleground between softheadedness on the one hand (overtolerance) and narrow mindedness on the other (undertolerance). ==See also== *Autism rights movement *fat acceptance movement *freedom of religion *grey area *heresy *inquisition *Neurodiversity *penal laws *prejudice *religious pluralism ==External link== *[http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9308/budziszewski.html The Illusion of Moral Neutrality] *[http://sami119.tripod.com/shemaisrael/id31.html True & False Tolerance]
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The first section seems a bit too dictionary-like. The cross-links are more useful than the definition, IMO. User:Mkmcconn Some content moved to Forty-nine charismatic virtues. User:Petermanchester 13:25, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- This really needs to also mention tolerance in manufacturing, particularly electronics. User:Radiojon 03:43, 2004 Apr 11 (UTC) --- I tried to edit but I can't. This entry has the strange effect of people who have been taught about Tolerance, and lectured about it, but have never felt it for a moment at first-hand. ''Tolerance cannot be neutral about what is good, though, for its very purpose is to guard good and avert evils. The circumstantial element in the practice of tolerance is right judgment of greater ends against lesser ends.'' Is not the natural conclusion to this sentence ''thus enabling lesser ends to be sacrificed to greater ends.'' I recognize the school of thinking, but it's not known for its tolerance. User:Wetman 19:11, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC) ==Old self== The following paragraph is strange, to me: :In Christianity, tolerance plays a part with regard to the one's former way of life, as a belief is often professed in the need to put off the old self that was corrupted by its deceitful desires (prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance), and be renewed in the spirit of the mind. Accompanying this is also a corresponding need to put on a new self, which was created to be like God, in righteousness and true holiness, which includes tolerance, It quotes from Ephesians 4:22. In that context, the "old self" and "former way of life" is "ignorance", "hardness of heart", surrender to "sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more". Can someone find "prejudice, bigotry and intolerance" in this? It strikes me as a misappropriation of a well-known text for a rare application. In other words, it sounds as though the editor was explaining himself, rather than explaining the Christian view of tolerance. User:MkmcconnUser Talk:Mkmcconn 02:42, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Tolerance as a conundrum== As evidenced by the statement, "There's only one thing I won't tolerate, and that's intolerance". The article leaves unclear the level of tolerance that is tolerable of the intolerant. User:Matthew Stannard 11:42, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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