Tolerance and Universalism

There is a strong attachment to pluralism in the liberal tradition. Giovani Sartori, one of the great theoreticians of democracy, speaks about a ‘genetic code’ of the free society.Undoubtedly, pluralism is closely connected with one of the features of the ‘open society’, which Karl Popper defined as the science of tolerance. We deem it necessary to discuss this notion (tolerance) for it is claimed by currents opposing liberalism, multiculturalism primarily, which, among other things, reproaches the former for lacking the exigencies of tolerance.