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ABSTRACT

This study enveloped the behavioural aspect of the individual in respect to his/her interaction with the other beings in the society. The study underscored tolerance as a normative principle on which it reflects on Andrew Fiala’s notion of tolerance and ethical life. The main theme of this research is that the level at which tolerance operates as a normative principle is at the ordinary, familiar sense in which restrictions on behavior are mainly cultivated acts of the individuals and applied to the institutions or community of the individuals. Against this backdrop, the work was guided by four objectives designed to consider what it is about tolerance that it seems to be an attractive value or ideal in its own right to many people in a civilized society; to find out what exactly is good about tolerance; to ascertain why as a principle, people ought to be tolerant; and to disclose the silent distinction between the justification of tolerance and the good of toleration. To achieve this, the researcher employed analytical and prescriptive method to study tolerance as a normative principle in relation to Andrew Fiala’s notion of tolerance and ethical life. Thus, from the look of the events of life, the sorry history of the human race suggests that we humans are not all that good at the level of relating to our follow beings let alone at the preservation of nature or even of the survival of our species. Perhaps this work imprint, among others that we have got to buy into tolerance and the form of life it defines so as to keep the stream running. This lies in the fact that no man exists in isolation. Provided we live in the midst of others, we must in one way or the other be moved to tolerate their actions or behavior, given that man is limited in knowledge.