Pluralism is not Enough for Tolerance. Philosophical and Psychological Reflections on Pluralism and Tolerance

The issue of religious tolerance is increasingly raised in a globalized world with societies becoming more and religiously diverse inhomogeneous. Religious can be defined as the practice accepting others acting accordance their belief system. Philosophers have recently begun to study thoroughly relationship between pluralism (in)tolerance main focus on epistemic question whether recognition reflection might lead greater tolerance. major thrust this idea that any genuine person about her peers adhering other religions will weaken person’s justificatory basis for believing own beliefs are better warranted than peers.
 rational consequence fact, turn, should weakened dismissive attitude towards adherents religions. aim paper investigate plausibility account against background existing empirical, particular psychological literature: Does increased contact traditions indeed tolerance? How we able show deeper understanding people different take on—at least partially—their perspective? What potential obstacles these achievements? Resources from research intergroup toleration, social identity-theories, developmental psychology personality traits used tackling questions. This shall help broaden so far rather narrow philosophical perspective by embedding it into larger context constitutive human psyche.