Comment on “Moral Legalism and Tolerance. Chronicle of a Foretold Death” of René Gonzalez de la Vega

Abstract

My purpose is to review the two central arguments that the author prepares to hold his position. In both cases it will come to the conclusion that, from an ethical liberal perspective, tolerance is irrelevant. My belief is that the proposed reconstruction better corresponds to moral normative systems than to legal regulatory
systems. In my view what allows Gonzalez de la Vega sustain such arguments is a particular version of deontological liberalism. I think it is possible to be a moral deontologist and admit an imperfect rationality capable of hosting the uncertainties and dilemmas.