冲突的现代性：作为正义原则的宽容

Conflicted Modernity: Toleration as a Principle of Justice

视宽容为迎接政治冲突挑战的方式的背景已经改变。考虑到最近宗教的复兴,我们不能再将宽容设想为开始于宗教意识、结束于世俗意识的漫长过程的终结。因此,我们不能再将现代化看作与世俗化不可分割的另一方。现代性自身是多元的术语。因此,宽容的范围已经改变。人们必须承认没有构想现代性的唯一正确的路径。正是在这种背景下,我们面临将宽容的概念扩展到包容所有合理的宗教立场和世俗立场的挑战。当然,在一个充斥暴力冲突的世界,这是一种乐观主义的立场。然而,它仍然有待通过国际法的发展着的商谈得以具体化。

The context for consideration of toleration as a way of meeting the challenge of political conflict has changed. Given the recent rise of religion, we can no longer conceive of toleration as the end of a long process that began with a religious consciousness and ends with a secular one. Hence, we can no longer think of modernization as the correlative with secularization. Modernity itself is a plural term. Hence, the scope of toleration has changed. One must concede that there is no one correct way in which to conceive modernity. And it is in this context that we are challenged to expand our notion of toleration to include all reasonable religious and secular positions. To be sure, in a world of violent conflict this is an optimistic position. However, it remains to be concretized through the developing discourses of international law.