Smaznova I. Violence and Tolerance: Philosophical and Legal Study

In the thesis philosophical and legal aspects of violence and tolerance have been studied, in particular theoretical and legal principles as to the violence and tolerance investigation have been analyzed, system analysis on theoretical and legal and ontognoseological foundations for providing protection of a person against unlawful violence and aggression, securing the observation of principle of tolerance have been given. It has been noted that the categories of philosophy and philosophy of law that were applied during the cognition of violence and tolerance cumulate the results of advanced studies in the other fields of science: jurisprudence, logic, psychology, political science, culturology, linguistics, religious studies, sociology, etc. These categories are interrelated so that the each of them can be only comprehended as a part of the whole of the system. The problems of violence and tolerance, as well as the development trends in contemporary society have been shown as actual ones. The philosophical and legal analysis of violence as an instrument of manipulating human consciousness has been carried out. It has been established that state-of-the-art achievements in the field of psychophysiological sciences equip some politicians and ideologists with methods of manipulating human consciousness. The comprehension of violence as a certain external force that – similarly to natural calamities – is influenced by external factors is formed in human consciousness. Social predominance of onesided views on the causes of origin of violence and the methods of violence control is a result of such purposeful work. According to such views any violence is an evil an accurate response to which is only to be an infliction of an equivalent evil to the evil carriers. The logical and methodological aspect of interaction between the phenomenon of violence and human consciousness and its representation in public opinion has been analyzed.