[MUSIC] Today, we are extremely grateful to be hosted by Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Why Hamburg? Why Talia Teatre? Hamburg, because of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Italia theater because of it's yearly international theater festival Lessingtage. So why Lessing? Because Lessing's friendship with the Jewish-German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. And moreover, most if not all of Lessing's writings, especially his ideendrama, Nathan der Weise, together constitute what the biographer of Mendelsohn's quotes the declare call of the enlightenment for religious tolerance, end quotes. We here in Hamburg Thalia Theatre to address the question whether in what sense and to what extent skepticism provides good reasons to do away with prejudices and to adopt religious and inter-religious tolerance. The motto of a recent edition of the lesson target could have been our motto as well, God's Command, Give Me a Break. In the first clip, you will learn how to make a sharp distinction between belief and truths. If you believe something, you believe that it is true, you accept what you believe as true, but unless you are truth relativist the actual truths of what you believe is being true or not is a course of a different color. Whether what you believe is in fact true depends on whether it corresponds with the world, with reality. In a second clip, this distinction between belief and truths will help you to understand and perhaps also to adapt the attitude of the positive skeptic, the truth exists but we can never know whether what we believe, what we accept as true is in fact true. Whether it corresponds with reality. As a result, all our beliefs are and will always remain deep down prejudices. In clip three, you will learn to understand and appreciate how the realization that other people having other beliefs are in the very same epistemic predicament can motivate to adopt a modern styles and to argue for metaphysical toleration in general and religious toleration in particular.