Pela legitimação da tolerância: uma leitura da obra Tratado sobre a Tolerância de Voltaire

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the route taken by French thinker Voltaire, with regard to the idea of tolerance, in his celebrated work Treatise on Tolerance. To this end, we used the same method adopted by the thinker, that is, looking at history as a way to reflect on the present and project the future in search of a possible legitimation of tolerance, without a strict chronology as a means of analysis. First, we discussed the meaning of the word tolerance and its diverse forms of interpretation, passing between the civilizations of antiquity, namely Greece and Rome. After some possible reasons that contributed to the reflections of the idea of tolerance in the said areas correlated modernity, namely, education and religion as a legitimate possibility of social-political and economic. In the end, accomplishes the goal of an analysis regarding what can be understood as a reflection that comes from ideas illustrated