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THE VALUE OF TOLERANCE IN THE SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY NGUYEN THI PHUONG MAI PhD Candidate Institute of Philosophy The Vietnam Academy of Social Science (VASS) Hanoi, Vietnam Social problems in the 20th century have brought many lessons to mankind The settlement of conflicts in society: confrontation 1. War and peace 2. The culture inhibits the development of all aspects of social life ethical values, cultural values are ignored. The United Nations declared 2001 was the “Year of Dialogue among civilizations based on tolerance” globalization Globalization has double impact to human’s lives (From economic consideration only) created the values never had before negative impacts: + the rapid increase gap of rich and poor + increasing the pressure inequality between individuals, etc From the second half 20th century to the 21st century is characterized by: - increasing political selfconsciousness of the civilization in the links, the alliance for zone; - the start of the antagonism between them as basic lines of the 21st century geopolitics. Since the late 20th century, with the beginning of post-industrial society, the plans prepared for war between civilizations has been placed on top several characteristics of conflict 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The opposition of civilization The differences in regime of cultural social The differences in population trends The economic benefits A warlike policy The lack of remedies to protect global peace The task of philosophy Study the basis of objective and build forecasting scenarios possible conflict between civilizations + comprehensive evaluation and broad dissemination of the consequences of such conflicts + build mechanisms point and move to the cooperation and partnership among civilizations The risk of military conflict between civilizations, the risk of global war are not removed Violence should be avoided so that people can live peacefully Starting in the late 20th century, the calls for tolerance is regarded a global project • the process through industrial civilization • the alternative the old cultural society • the differentiation between the civilization Tolerance developed the basis for building peace for mankind 1. to accurately assess the value system of cultural social which has benefits of peace 2. need of the correct method to achieve the purpose of the new historical conditions 3. determined to direct economic benefits to the stability and fairness Tolerance developed the basis for building peace for mankind 4. identify causes the gap between civilizations, peoples, classes of rich and poor people 5. transferring technology and education 6. all the development follow a sustainable development 7. stabilization of world population and overcoming the population explosion The common spirit of tolerance and a culture of peace is the only proper way to solve a humanitarian issue of global population We should accept the views of others People should always listen to others even when angry and understand them The common spirit of tolerance and a culture of peace The decisive role: the shift in human consciousness policy makers, scientists, intellectuals, arts and newspaperdoms the religious activists Radical changes in education systems and training in all forms and on all its levels Dialogue is one of important consequences of implementing tolerance in the modern world achieves the best performance when the parties demostrate understanding and mutual respect => Consensus People should always listen to others even when angry and understand them. Consensus 2 main aspects 1) Consensus among the subjects of politics or of other activities, issues this or other issues, a consensus based on the presence in them certain values and basic standards, all social groups and political groups basically agrees 2) The adoption decisions do not need to vote, when the expression of consensus for all. Consensus The consensus is discriminated between content and the form The content of consensus means the people’s unaminity is common in political leaders and the political decisions or to both. consensus on the form, the people’s unaminity is common to the entire political system Consensus In the political sphere: Consensus means unanimity of the people on the process through political decisions Consensus appears the attitude of respect for human rights The political institutions - the legislature, the courts, the political coalition - take the part of the different reconcilement to create social consensus Where there is peace, children can play with love, happily and peacefully? The process of cultural exchange going strong UNESCO declared 2010: “International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures” Thank you!