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Understanding liberal democracy : essays in political philosophy /
This work "collects the author's work at the intersection between political philosophy and religion. Alongside his influential earlier essays, it includes nine new essays in which Wolterstorff develops original lines of argument and stakes out novel positions regarding the nature of libera...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Public reason liberalism
- ch. 1. The paradoxical role of coercion in the theory of political liberalism
- ch. 2. An engagement with Rorty
- ch. 3. The justificatory liberalism of Gerald Gaus
- ch. 4. What are the prospects for public reason liberalism?
- Part II. Re-thinking liberal democracy
- ch. 5. Liberal democracy as equal political voice
- ch. 6. Exercising one's political voice as a moral engagement
- Part III. Perspectives on rights
- ch. 7. On secular and Theistic groundings of human rights
- ch. 8. Grounding the rights we have as human persons
- ch. 9. The right of the people to a democratic state : reflections on a passage in Althusius
- ch. 10. Accounting for the political authority of the state
- Part IV. Liberal democracy and religion
- ch. 11. Why can't we all just get a long with each other?
- ch. 12. Freedom for religion
- ch. 13. Do Christians have good reasons for supporting liberal democracy?
- ch. 14. A religious argument for the civil right to freedom of religious exercise, drawn form American history
- ch. 15. Habermas on religion and postmetaphysical philosophy in political discourse.