Cargando…
Conscience and the common good : reclaiming the space between person and state /
Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the individual in any contest against...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the individual in any contest against group authority, losing sight of the fact that a vibrant liberty of conscience requires a vibrant marketplace of morally distinct groups. Defending individual autonomy is not the same as defending the liberty of conscience because, although conscience is inescapably personal, it is also inescapably relational. Conscience is formed, articulated, and lived out through relationships, and its viability depends on the law's willingness to protect the associations and venues through which individual consciences can flourish: these are the myriad institutions that make up the space between the person and the state. Conscience and the Common Good reframes the debate about conscience by bringing its relational dimension into focus. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511729003 0511729006 9780511725708 0511725701 9780511804267 0511804261 9780511730443 0511730446 9780511725265 0511725264 1107202930 9781107202931 0511846797 9780511846793 9786612585869 6612585862 0511728050 9780511728051 0511724292 9780511724299 0511727100 9780511727108 |