Tolerantism
Tolerantism describes the exaggerated use of tolerance in which otherness, like any clear profile, is neglected. The term was probably first used by Empress Maria Theresa to oppose what she saw as excessive tolerance for Protestants and Jews. But it was also used by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais in the comedy Le barbier de Séville , where he describes tolerantism in the sense of general tolerance as the most successful achievement of the 18th century. For the most part, however, the term had polemical connotations and was directed against unlimited and unconditional tolerance towards everyone and everyone. This criticism at the end of the 18th century was not limited to the camp of opponents of the Enlightenment .
In the 19th century, Pope Leo XII condemned . at the beginning of his pontificate tolerantism, indifferentism and membership in Bible societies that were formed everywhere.
Tolerantism is a pejorative and is mainly used by people who are opposed to the idea of tolerance or who are of the opinion that it is overly emphasized. Today the word is still used by religiously oriented circles, but it can also appear in a more general, rather diffuse meaning, similar to the term do- gooder .
References
- ↑ University of Erlangen: The Center of Faith (Rich-Text Format) ( RTF ; 143 kB)
- ^ History of the Viennese Jews up to 1914
- ↑ Gisela Schlüter: From religious tolerance to tolerantism. On the universalization of the concept of tolerance in the Enlightenment. In Martin Wallraff (ed.): Religious tolerance: 1700 years after the Edict of Milan. De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-043742-3 , pp. 27-50; here: p. 35 .