Tolerance

Tolerance

Introduction to Tolerance

Tolerance, capacity for recognizing and accepting religious or social characteristics that differ from one’s own. Tolerance also has meanings in medicine, biology, and manufacturing. In medicine, it can refer to the need for an increase in the amount of drugs ingested to produce the same effect as before. In biology, tolerance is an organism’s ability to live in various environments. In manufacturing, tolerances relate to the variability allowed for in dimensions or specifications of products.” (1)

Tolerance

In relation to the tolerance and constitutional law, Irene Spigno[1] made the following observation: The prevailing historical and constitutional meaning of tolerance refers to a fundamental principle aiming to solve the problem of the coexistence of different beliefs originally of an exclusively religious, and later also a political, nature (Bobbio 230). Defined as ‘[t]he action or practice of tolerating;… the disposition to be patient with or indulgent to the opinions or practices of others; freedom from bigotry or undue severity in judging the conduct of others; forbearance; catholicity of spirit’ (The Oxford English Dictionary 200), ‘tolerance’ has (…)

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  1. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Irene Spigno, “Tolerance” (2018, Germany, United Kingdom)

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