On the concept of intercultural dialogue

On the concept of intercultural dialogue The aim of this contribution to the discussion of intercultural dialogue is to point to two diametrically different approaches to the adoption of critical standpoints between negativism and positive criticism - that is, between the attitude of passivity and the attitude of active courage to do. Because positive criticism - unlike mere negation - enables an opening out of thematic space to new possibilities, it is also capable of transforming the narrowly understood war-peace polarity into reality of a different quality, and, at the same time, to give it a new, so to speak global, meaning. In this way inter-cultural dialogue, not forgetting its reliance on historical contexts and the postulations of its own traditions, achieves its own justification.