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.