O TOLERANTNOSTI VO SVETLE "ROZPRAVY O CNOSTIACH"

• Authors: Sivák Jozef

Title variants

EN

On tolerance in the light of "A Treatise on Virtues"

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with one of the basic concepts of the classical ethical conception of French moral philosopher Vladimir Jankelevitch (1903 - 1985). Although tolerance is one of the so called little virtues', it is not less important; it has its own philosophy based on two presuppositions: 1) we have to abandon the knowledge of the thing in itself; 2) we have to conceive of every person as a purpose itself, 'an imperium within an imperium'. The symbiosis of body and mind, this 'living paradox', can serve as a model of how to resolve an irresolvable problem of tolerance. In the same way the 'paradox' of a community of people sharing common faith and forced by it to act together could be brought to existence (given their self-understanding and the understanding of the shared). And if convivial moments and moments of enthusiasms are affiliated, maybe one day they will start to love one another.

Keywords

EN

ETHICS; FRENCH PHILOSOPHY; JANKELEVITCH VLADIMIR; MORAL PHILOSOPHY; TOLERANCE; VIRTUES

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 336-342
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sivák Jozef

• Mgr. Jozef Sivak, CSc., Filozoficky ustav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09051