This article has two objectives. First, I want to represent a concept of tolerance simpliciter where personal autonomy and the need to strengthen a culture are the only reasons for which the agent-state must consider tolerance. Secondly, I intend to respond affirmatively to the question of whether, in the perfectionist and multicultural liberalism of Joseph Raz, intercultural rights can be derived from moral and political theory. To meet these objectives, I will focus on the moral uses of the word "tolerate" and then, following Sandel, on the analysis of critical and uncritical tolerance. Subsequently, I will explore Raz' liberalism in order to show the theoretical problems generated by the foundations of collective rights. I conclude by affirming the existence of collective rights as an institutional resource for enabling the development of cultural minority groups within the current development of the nation state.
Tolerance; Personal autonomy; Minority culture; Multicultural liberalism