ON THE REASONABLESS OF TOLERATION
ON THE REASONABLESS OF TOLERATION

Summary/Abstract: Toleration and reason grew along an impressive literature though not always with a constant intensity and flow. An edge and favored subject at times, the combination of two have fallen into shadow or shear oblivion some other times. Coming up in the early modernity and Enlightenment, with John Locke and Immanuel Kant or Voltaire, the concern for the combination of two, took a long two century pause up to the middle of the Twentieth and the beginning of the Twenty first. To look into the explanation and understanding of this quite venturous shift of fate is the purpose of the present essay. The main assumption underlying it is that complex and disjunctive historical contexts challenged both the content and the practice of tolerance and ratio in their conjuncture, having as a combined effect and result a critique followed by the decomposition of the concepts under the pressure of adverse practices. In turn newly restored understandings are emerging as embodiments of reason in current practices of toleration. In order to address the argument a comparison is drawn between the historical context of the seventeenth century through the examination of John Locke’s evolutive design on toleration and the present historical context in which toleration has been constantly summoned up by the EU representatives, countries and institutions related to the migration/refugees Syrian crisis.

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