Carlos Thiebaut

La tolerancia y la hospitalidad son analizadas como dos formas de aceptación de las diferencias (la primera interna, la segunda externa) en una sociedad política y se analizan como resultado y como productoras de una experiencia reflexiva de autoextrañeza que, se sugiere, está en el corazón normativo de la modernidad. El artículo presenta un análisis de las lógicas –demandas y restricciones– de esas dos dimensiones y se presentan las maneras en que las demandas –epistémicas, normativas, políticas– de ambas dimensiones se cruzan en tiempos de globalización.

Three philosophical attitudes in dialogue are suggested in answering the question posed by the Journal. An inviting, First Inner Voice undeerstands philosophy as a shareable theoretical task that can be explained and understood even across distant philosophical paradigms. A Second Inner Voice, sometimes termed in the dialogue as sceptic, distrusts any metaphilosophical definition of what philosophy is and what it should do, but would, nevertheless, aspire to retain a certain universalistic understanding of its own work, though it cannot be strongly and conceptualy rendered. A Third Inner Voice, regarded in the text as somewhat Hegelian, insists in the unavoidability of strong philosophical definitions both in historical and in conceptual terms. No proposal or conclusion is forwarded regarding what should be done in contemporary philosophy, though an analysis of harm experiences is taken as an example of philosophical work.