Religion In Liberal Political Philosophy
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Author |
: Cécile Laborde |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198794394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198794398 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy by : Cécile Laborde
This volume provides a significant new contribution to the understanding of the normative status of religion in liberal political philosophy.
Author |
: Cécile Laborde |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2017-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674976269 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674976266 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Liberalism’s Religion by : Cécile Laborde
Cécile Laborde argues that religion is more than a statement of belief or a moral code. It refers to comprehensive ways of life, theories of justice, modes of association, and vulnerable collective identities. By disaggregating these dimensions, she addresses questions about whether Western secularism and religion can be applied more universally.
Author |
: Steven Frankel |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2020-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271087436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271087439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy by : Steven Frankel
Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accordingly. This volume examines the arguments of those thinkers who worked to remake Christianity into a civil religion in the early modern and modern periods. Beginning with Machiavelli and continuing through to Alexis de Tocqueville, the essays in this collection explain in detail the ways in which these philosophers used religious and secular writing to build a civil religion in the West. Early chapters examine topics such as Machiavelli’s comparisons of Christianity with Roman religion, Francis Bacon’s cherry-picking of Christian doctrines in the service of scientific innovation, and Spinoza’s attempt to replace long-held superstitions with newer, “progressive” ones. Other essays probe the scripture-based, anti-Christian argument that religion must be subordinate to politics espoused by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, both of whom championed reason over divine authority. Crucially, the book also includes a study of civil religion in America, with chapters on John Locke, Montesquieu, and the American Founders illuminating the relationships among religious and civil history, acts, and authority. The last chapter is an examination of Tocqueville’s account of civil religion and the American regime. Detailed, thought-provoking, and based on the careful study of original texts, this survey of religion and politics in the West will appeal to scholars in the history of political philosophy, political theory, and American political thought.
Author |
: Ronald Beiner |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2010-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139492614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139492616 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Civil Religion by : Ronald Beiner
Civil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It examines four important traditions within the history of modern political philosophy. The civil religion tradition, principally defined by Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau, seeks to domesticate religion by putting it solidly in the service of politics. The liberal tradition pursues an alternative strategy of domestication by seeking to put as much distance as possible between religion and politics. Modern theocracy is a militant reaction against liberalism, reversing the relationship of subordination asserted by civil religion. Finally, a fourth tradition is defined by Nietzsche and Heidegger. Aspects of their thought are not just modern, but hyper-modern, yet they manifest an often-hysterical reaction against liberalism that is fundamentally shared with the theocratic tradition. Together, these four traditions compose a vital dialogue that carries us to the heart of political philosophy itself.
Author |
: Eric Nelson |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2019-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674242951 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674242955 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theology of Liberalism by : Eric Nelson
One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing. We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country’s most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls’s wake. Nelson starts by noting that today’s liberal political philosophers treat the unequal distribution of social and natural advantages as morally arbitrary. This arbitrariness, they claim, diminishes our moral responsibility for our actions. Some even argue that we are not morally responsible when our own choices and efforts produce inequalities. In defending such views, Nelson writes, modern liberals have implicitly taken up positions in an age-old debate about whether the nature of the created world is consistent with the justice of God. Strikingly, their commitments diverge sharply from those of their proto-liberal predecessors, who rejected the notion of moral arbitrariness in favor of what was called Pelagianism—the view that beings created and judged by a just God must be capable of freedom and merit. Nelson reconstructs this earlier “liberal” position and shows that Rawls’s philosophy derived from his self-conscious repudiation of Pelagianism. In closing, Nelson sketches a way out of the argumentative maze for liberals who wish to emerge with commitments to freedom and equality intact.
Author |
: Christopher J. Eberle |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2002-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521011558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521011556 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics by : Christopher J. Eberle
A controversial defense of religious convictions in political activities.
Author |
: Tom Bailey |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2014-12-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231538398 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231538391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rawls and Religion by : Tom Bailey
John Rawls's influential theory of justice and public reason has often been thought to exclude religion from politics, out of fear of its illiberal and destabilizing potentials. It has therefore been criticized by defenders of religion for marginalizing and alienating the wealth of religious sensibilities, voices, and demands now present in contemporary liberal societies. In this anthology, established scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls's theory to show they in fact offer sophisticated resources for accommodating and responding to religions in liberal political life. The chapters reassert the subtlety, openness, and flexibility of his sense of liberal "respect" and "consensus," revealing their inclusive implications for religious citizens. They also explore the means he proposes for accommodating nonliberal religions in liberal politics, developing his conception of "public reason" into a novel account of the possibilities for rational engagement between liberal and religious ideas. And they reevaluate Rawls's liberalism from the "transcendent" perspectives of religions themselves, critically considering its normative and political value, as well as its own "religious" character. Rawls and Religion makes a unique and important contribution to contemporary debates over liberalism and its response to the proliferation of religions in contemporary political life.
Author |
: Camil Ungureanu |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 728 |
Release |
: 2017-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351391740 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351391747 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion by : Camil Ungureanu
What is the place of religion in a pluralist democracy? The continuous presence of religion in the public sphere has raised anew normative and practical issues related to the role of religion in a democratic polity, generating spirited political debates in Western and non-Western contexts. Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion provides an advanced introduction to, and a critical appraisal of, the major schools of political thought with a focus on the relationship between democracy and religion. Key features of this book include: Analyses of different political traditions: liberalism, republicanism, deliberative democracy, feminism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and interculturalism; Critical discussions of key contemporary philosophers, such as John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Susan Moller Okin, Martha Nussbaum, Will Kymlicka, Chandran Kukathas, and Bhiku Parekh; A pluralist approach that questions the strict divide between analytical and continental political philosophy; Discussion on the place of religion in politics from multiple perspectives by drawing on a plurality of political contexts, both Western and non-Western; Analyses of legal and political cases related to different religious traditions, for example, Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. This comprehensive text will be of great use to students of religion and politics in the fields of political and legal theory, and religious and theological studies, while also offering critical insights and arguments that will be of interest to the experts in the field.
Author |
: Aurelia Bardon |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2020-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000077995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000077993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Liberalism’s Religion by : Aurelia Bardon
How should liberalism understand – and deal with – religion? Cécile Laborde offers powerful new answers in her book Liberalism’s Religion; this collection subjects that theory to critical scrutiny from an array of scholars, thereby advancing the scholarly debate. Religion has recently become the object of a significant and growing literature in legal and political philosophy, for example: What does it mean to guarantee religious freedom? When the religious freedom of some citizens appears in conflict with the religious freedom of others, what should be done? May religious reasons be legitimately invoked to justify political decisions, or should they be excluded from public deliberation? In the recent literature, the dominant liberal response to these questions is based on an egalitarian theory of religion. In her major new work, Liberalism’s Religion, Cécile Laborde argues that the prevailing liberal-egalitarian approach toward religion is misguided and in need of crucial revision. In doing so, she offers powerful and original answers, organised by her distinctive thesis that liberals must radically rethink how we conceive religion itself. This volume subjects her powerful new theory to scrutiny from an array of scholars, engaging each dimension of it. The volume includes a comprehensive reply by Laborde to the various points raised by these scholars, and therefore moves the debate forward, highlighting key issues that should be addressed in the future in the literature on religion and political philosophy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Author |
: Kent Greenawalt |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195067798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195067797 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious Convictions and Political Choice by : Kent Greenawalt
How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or legislators doing something wrong when they consciously allow their decisions respecting abortion laws to be determined by their religious views? Despite its intense contemporary relevance, the full dimensions of this issue have until now not been thoroughly examined. Religious Convictions and Political Choice represents the first attempt to fill this gap. Beginning with an account of the basic premises of our liberal democracy, Greenawalt moves to a comparison between rational secular grounds of decision and grounds based on religious convictions. He discusses particular issues such as animal rights and abortion, showing how religious convictions can bear on an individual's decisions about them, and inquires whether reliance on such convictions is compatible with liberal democratic premises. In conclusion, he argues that citizens cannot be expected to rely exclusively on rational, secular grounds.