Religious Commitment and Secular ReasonCambridge University Press, 2000 M03 13 - 258 pages Many religious people are alarmed about features of the current age--violence in the media, a pervasive hedonism, a marginalization of religion, and widespread abortion. These concerns influence politics, but just as there should be a separation between church and state, so should there be a balance between religious commitments and secular arguments calling for social reforms. Robert Audi offers a principle of secular rationale, which does not exclude religious grounds for action but which rules out restricting freedom except on grounds that any rational citizen would accept. This book describes the essential commitments of free democracy, explains how religious and secular moral considerations can be integrated to facilitate cooperation in a world of religious pluralism, and proposes ideals of civic virtue that express the mutual respect on which democracy depends. |
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Contents
THE PLURALITY OF PATHS TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY | 3 |
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY | 4 |
OUTLINES OF A CASE FOR LIBERAL DEMOCRACY | 8 |
FREEDOM AND COERCION | 27 |
THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE | 31 |
THREE CENTRAL PRINCIPLES OF CHURCHSTATE SEPARATION | 32 |
CHURCHSTATE SEPARATION VIEWED FROM A RELIGIOUS STANDPOINT | 41 |
PUBLIC OBSERVANCES EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND TAX EXEMPTION | 51 |
THE PRINCIPLE OF THEOETHICAL EQUILIBRIUM | 135 |
THEOLOGY AND THE AUTONOMY OF ETHICS | 139 |
CIVIC VIRTUE AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN A RELIGIOUSLY PLURALISTIC DEMOCRACY | 143 |
CIVIC VIRTUE | 145 |
VIRTUES AS NORMATIVELY STRUCTURED ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER | 146 |
THE GROUNDS OF CIVIC VIRTUE | 149 |
CIVIC VIRTUE AND THE GROUNDS FOR SOCIOPOLITICAL ACTION | 155 |
CIVIC VIRTUE AND THE BALANCING OF RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR REASONS | 163 |
CHURCHSTATE SEPARATION AND THE JUSTIFICATION OF GOVERNMENTAL POWER | 59 |
A SURROGACY CONCEPTION OF JUSTIFIED COERCION | 65 |
THE POSITIVE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS IN A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY | 69 |
THE ETHICS OF CITIZENSHIP AND THE BALANCE OF RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL ARGUMENTS | 79 |
RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AND SECULAR REASONS | 81 |
RELIGION POLITICS AND THE ETHICS OF CITIZENSHIP | 82 |
TWO PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP | 86 |
SOME PROBLEMS OF APPLICATION | 105 |
THE ETHICS OF CITIZENSHIP AND THE ACCOMMODATION OF RELIGION | 109 |
RELIGION AND ETHICS TOWARD INTEGRATION | 116 |
RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION | 123 |
THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATIONS IN CIVIC DISCOURSE | 168 |
INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSIONS OF CIVIC VIRTUE | 176 |
RELIGIOUS CONVICTION AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM | 181 |
PREVENTION OF KILLING THE INNOCENT AS A RATIONALE FOR VIOLENCE | 182 |
SOME ARGUMENTS FOR PERSONHOOD AT CONCEPTION | 187 |
THE RESTRICTION OF ABORTION AND THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE | 195 |
VIOLENCE AND COERCION VERSUS CIVILIZED DISAGREEMENT AND PERSUASION | 204 |
ETHICS RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY | 209 |
NOTES | 217 |
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