Abstract

The philosophical foundation and the limits of religious tolerance are part of the core problems of legal philosophy. The text explores the key epistemological and normative foundations of tolerance. Even though Kant cannot be credited with solving the riddles of tolerance his thought leads in core respects, most notably as regards to his critique of religious knowledge and his concept of human dignity, to the heart of the problem of the foundations of religious tolerance. Kant’s philosophy of religion is therefore the focus of the following remarks which lead in the end to an assessment of widely discussed problems of religious tolerance today.