Ética da tolerância e seus inimigos: imprecisão conceitual de pluralismo, permissivismo e relativismo como obstáculo a seus próprios ideais

Abstract

Human rights constitute a milestone for an ethic of tolerance. From this premise, this article recognizes in contemporary constitutionalism, simultaneously, a depository and a source of this ethics, and affirms that this can be weakened by the practical effect of the interpretation of certain constitutional epistemological proposals. Aware of the risk of subversion of these proposals through its unrecfletive implementation, the text articulates reflections on how the ideal of tolerance, essential to human rights, can lose its emancipatory potentialities from a rhetorical strategy that uses the imprecise concepts of multiculturalism and pluralism, which today attract sympathies to the humanistic discourse, to promote a permissivism that can weaken certain promises of constitutionalism and its ethical content, generating the paradoxes of tolerance. These, when admitted uncritically in the name of excessive moral malleability, excessively relativize the values that order society and threaten the very ideal that gave them origin, putting at risk the survival of this same ethic of tolerance