• Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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• v.139
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• pp.169-190
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• 2016

We must heed the late $19^{th}$ century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He criticized toleration in the same context as he strongly denied the slave morality, i.e. morality of the weak, and victims paralyzing humanity. Therefore the toleration that Nietzsche makes the target of criticism is an excuse which enables the weak to conceal their own cowardliness and powerlessness and to take such a dismissal as justice. Of course, Nietzsche proposes a further alternative. It is not toleration coming from weakness but toleration coming from strength and can be called 'the great toleration.' The great toleration is the virtue that only human beings who can also use opposite thought or opinion for themselves can show.