democratic culture

The article notes that legal values are a defining element of legal influence on society, which have a significant impact on the mechanism of legal regulation. Values are the result of the generalization of social experience and the standard of what is proper, since they embody social ideals. Legal values are a phenomenon that is dynamically developing. One of the values that is already habitually correlated with the European style of legal thinking is tolerance. Tolerance is not just a value that is given legal significance (i.

The article defines the legal imperatives of tolerance of social relations. The problem of tolerance is connected with a number of fundamental philosophical and worldview questions that affect the understanding of man, his identity, civic position, the possibilities and limits of nation- and state-building, the democratization of social life, the dialogue of cultures and civilizations, and the search for a "sophia" discourse of tolerance.