The governments of certain liberal democracies have created public commissions responsible for formulating recommendations for the management of cultural and religious diversity. The reports from these commissions not only comprise a political dimension but they also contain a philosophical perspective that has not been sufficiently examined by the specialized literature. This article explores the philosophical dimensions of some of these reports, paying special attention to those that were produced by the Commission for Reflection on the Implementation of the Principle of Secularism in the Republic (France, 2003) and the Commission of Intercultural Dialogue (Belgium 2005).