Cultures and religions in dialogue
A reference to the ethical necessity of a pluralism between cultures, abandoning the concept of "tolerance of the other" and bringing back to the center our limitation and contingency. The foundation of interreligious dialogue is represented by the indispensable plurality of cultures. The concept of pluralism is one of the central themes of Panikkar's thought and perhaps the "myth" par excellence that the theologian and thinker has tried to live and express. But the pluralism towards which Panikkar pushes us is not equal to the plurality that simply acknowledges the diversity and variety of reality. On the one hand, it is the whole of the whole, irreducible in any way to "unum" and which, despite this, does not sink into a cacophonic dispersion because it is supported by invisible harmony. It is rather a basic existential attitude, something to discover, to live and not to understand and close in a system or even less to reduce to the easy impression that evil does not exist. Pluralism is an openness and an existential attitude that knocks on humanity's door today.