ON THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PREMISES OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
ON THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PREMISES OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

Summary/Abstract: My contention is to adumbrate three general premises leading to religious tolerance.The first is that emphasis should be laid much more on ethics than on metaphysics.Religions greatly differ in supernatural beliefs but all advocate justice, love, truthfulness,self-control and other virtues. Second, the beliefs about God are not true in theirexact meaning, but rather as remote analogies to scientific truth. Religion is more resemblantof poetry than science. Third, real tolerance consists in the readiness to assimilatesome of the values of other religions, since no one has expressed the transcendent inan exhausting and perfect way.

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