On Three Philosophical Premises of Religious Tolerance

• Authors: Waloszczyk Konrad
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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 their exact meaning, but rather as remote analogies to scientific truth. Religion is more resemblant of poetry than science. Third, real tolerance consists in the readiness to assimilate some of the values of other religions, since no one has expressed the transcendent in an exhausting and perfect way.

Keywords

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tolerance; ethics; objective knowledge; world religions; openness for the Other

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 9-14

Contributors

author

Waloszczyk Konrad

• The Main School of Fire Service, Słowackiego 52/54, 01-629 Warsaw, Poland.