Religious Commitment and Secular Reason

By: Robert Audi

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Paperback | 18 May 2000

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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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'The extended argument is a magnificent accomplishment, and its coverage of reasons and religion in politics makes it widely relevant. In addition, for current political climates where religion and politics are hotly contested, Audi's careful analysis supplies a refreshing breeze ... This book will rightly be of interest to philosophers of all stripes. But for political philosophers in particular, Religious Commitment and Secular Reason is a vital and welcome contribution indeed.' The Philosophical Quarterly

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Preface	p. ix
The Foundations of Democracy and the Separation of Church and State
The Plurality of Paths to Liberal Democracy	p. 3
Liberal Democracy	p. 4
Outlines of a Case for Liberal Democracy	p. 8
Freedom and Coercion	p. 27
The Separation of Church and State	p. 31
Three Central Principles of Church-State Separation	p. 32
Church-State Separation Viewed from a Religious Standpoint	p. 41
Applications of Church-State Separation: Public Observances, Educational Policy, and Tax Exemption	p. 51
Church-State Separation and the Justification of Governmental Power	p. 59
Liberal Democracy and Conceptions of the Good	p. 59
A Surrogacy Conception of Justified Coercion	p. 65
The Positive Role of Religious Arguments in a Liberal Democracy	p. 69
The Ethics of Citizenship and the Balance of Religious and Political Arguments
Religious Convictions and Secular Reasons	p. 81
Religion, Politics, and the Ethics of Citizenship	p. 82
Two Principles of Democratic Citizenship	p. 86
Some Problems of Application	p. 105
The Ethics of Citizenship and the Accommodation of Religion	p. 109
Religion and Ethics: Toward Integration	p. 116
The Diverse Sources of Religious Obligation	p. 116
Religious Commitment and Political Participation	p. 123
The Principle of Theo-ethical Equilibrium	p. 135
Theology and the Autonomy of Ethics	p. 139
Civic Virtue and Political Activism in a Religiously Pluralistic Democracy
Civic Virtue	p. 145
Virtues as Normatively Structured Elements of Character	p. 146
The Grounds of Civic Virtue	p. 149
Civic Virtue and the Grounds for Sociopolitical Action	p. 155
Civic Virtue and the Balancing of Religious and Secular Reasons	p. 163
The Place of Religious Considerations in Civic Discourse	p. 168
Institutional Dimensions of Civic Virtue	p. 176
Religious Conviction and Political Activism	p. 181
Prevention of Killing the Innocent as a Rationale for Violence	p. 182
Some Arguments for Personhood at Conception	p. 187
The Restriction of Abortion and the Presumption of Innocence	p. 195
Violence and Coercion versus Civilized Disagreement and Persuasion	p. 204
Conclusion: Ethics, Religion, and Democracy	p. 209
Notes	p. 217
Index	p. 253
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