Understanding Liberal Democracy
Essays in Political Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2012
398 pages
978-0-19-165495-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents influential work by Nicholas Wolterstorff at the intersection between political philosophy and religion, alongside nine new essays on the nature of liberal democracy, human rights, and political authority. These novel essays offer an attractive alternative to the public reason liberalism defended by thinkers such as John Rawls.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE: PUBLIC REASON LIBERALISM
- 1. The Paradoxical Role of Coercion in the Theory of Political Liberalism
- 2. An Engagement with Rorty
- 3. The Justificatory Liberalism of Gerald Gaus
- 4. What Are the Prospects for Public Reason Liberalism?
- PART TWO: RE-THINKING LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
- 5. Liberal Democracy as Equal Political Voice
- 6. Exercising One's Political Voice as a Moral Engagement
- PART THREE: PERSPECTIVES ON RIGHTS
- 7. On Secular and Theistic Groundings of Human Rights
- 8. Grounding the Rights We Have as Human Persons
- 9. The Right of the People to a Democratic State: Reflections on a Passage in Althusius
- 10. Accounting for the Political Authority of the State
- PART FOUR: LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND RELIGION
- 11. Why Can't We All Just Get Along With Each Other?
- 12. Freedom for Religion
- 13. Do Christians Have Good Reasons for Supporting Liberal Democracy?
- 14. A Religious Argument for the Civil Right to Freedom of Religious Exercise, Drawn from American History
- 15. Habermas on Religion and Postmetaphysical Philosophy in Political Discourse
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
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- R
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