Religious Commitment and Secular Reason

Author: Audi, Robert

Brand: Cambridge University Press

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 272

EAN: 9780521772600

Release Date: 28-03-2000

Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

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Details: 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.