Tariq Ramadan -Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

The Quest for Meaning seeks to provoke not through the excess of its rhetoric but the banality of its reasoning.

Faith is an essential aspect of human life. All faiths embody a similar set of ideals. And given that is faith is essential and all faiths are similar, so society should respect all religious and cultural traditions. We need, in Ramadan's words, to "apprehend the diversity of our points of view and the essence of their similarity".

His starting-point is the insistence that humans are limited beings and reason an inadequate way of comprehending our world. Reason tells us in a partial manner how the world is. Only faith can inform us why it is as it is. Faith creates a framework that allows us to give life meaning and to comfort us when faced with our inadequacies.