João Batista Damasceno
The purpose of this article is historically situate the meaning of the word "tolerance" in Western culture. The article seeks to show how representative tendencies of modern social thought does not consider viable legal embodiment of this political virtue in pluralistic democracies. Still want the item, disagreeing with these currents, which would investigate the conceptual basis of the new tolerance, considered essential political and social principle for the functioning of the democratic state based on the rule of law.