Abstract
Ethics or Politics of Tolerance: Constructing a Teleological Dimension in Tolerance
This essay provides an indicative-scientific analysis of discourses and practices that have recently been built around two terrorist acts, one in New Zealand and the other in Norway, through an investigation into the existential conditions of ethics or politics of tolerance. During this investigation, it uses the logical reasoning used by Kant to identify the moral laws in terms of their reference-values, while on the other hand, it exploits the implicit research of John Locke on the theology inherent in the existential conditions of tolerance. With these applications, this article tries to make the codes and subjects embedded in the ethics or politics of tolerance, which came to the agenda again as a result of these terrorist acts, determines three constructive elements that code ethics/politics of tolerance: Christianity, Europeanness and space. This system, which tends to preserve certain assumptions, loads, or an ascribed teleology, uses a sieve metaphor to demonstrate how the subjects embedded in the system work implicitly. In this metaphorical system, it is argued that Christianity and Europeanness, correspond to the purpose-subject of ethics/politics of tolerance, in the Kantian sense, and the space functions to purify the others invited to the tolerance from reference-values, on the one hand, while on the other hand, it covers the established subjects in this system.
Keywords
Tolerance, autonomous, heteronomous, homology, other, reference-value.
