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Religious Convictions and Political Choice.
This examination of an important contemporary issue begins with the basic precepts of liberal democracy, and compares rational, secular grounds for decision-making with grounds based on religious conviction.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; I. Liberal Democracy and Publicly Accessible Reasons; 1. The Aim and Scope of the Inquiry; 2. Premises of Liberal Democracy and the Place of Religion; 3. The Relevance of Religious Convictions for Political Choice; 4. Publicly Accessible Grounds of Decision and Religious Convictions; II. Political Choices and Religious Convictions; 5. Inappropriate Grounds of Restriction: Consenting Sexual Acts as Sins; 6. Borderlines of Status I: Animal Rights and Environmental Policy; 7. Borderlines of Status II: Abortion.
- 8. Borderlines of Status III: Religious Convictions and the Limits of Publicly Accessible Reasons9. Moral Standards, Evaluative Comparisons, and Facts: Welfare Assistance and Other Issues; 10. Church-State Problems; 11. Religious Bases That Conflict with Common Forms of Reasoning; III. Dialogue, Official Action, and Constitutionality; 12. Appropriate Political Discourse in a Liberal Society; 13. Religious Convictions and Official Action; 14. The Boundaries of Constitutionality; Index; A.