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Author : Rafael Domingo
Release : 2016-09-29
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 31X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis God and the Secular Legal System by : Rafael Domingo
Download or read book God and the Secular Legal System written by Rafael Domingo. This book was released on 2016-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely contribution to the debate on the rights and liberties of religion, beliefs, and conscience in an age of secularization.
Author : Ronald Dworkin
Release : 2013-10-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 041/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Religion without God by : Ronald Dworkin
Download or read book Religion without God written by Ronald Dworkin. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God’s place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is inspired by remarks Einstein made that if religion consists of awe toward mysteries which “manifest themselves in the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, and which our dull faculties can comprehend only in the most primitive forms,” then, he, Einstein, was a religious person. Dworkin joins Einstein’s sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. He rejects the metaphysics of naturalism—that nothing is real except what can be studied by the natural sciences. Belief in God is one manifestation of this deeper worldview, but not the only one. The conviction that God underwrites value presupposes a prior commitment to the independent reality of that value—a commitment that is available to nonbelievers as well. So theists share a commitment with some atheists that is more fundamental than what divides them. Freedom of religion should flow not from a respect for belief in God but from the right to ethical independence. Dworkin hoped that this short book would contribute to rational conversation and the softening of religious fear and hatred. Religion without God is the work of a humanist who recognized both the possibilities and limitations of humanity.
Author : Rafael Domingo
Release : 2016-09-29
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 343/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis God and the Secular Legal System by : Rafael Domingo
Download or read book God and the Secular Legal System written by Rafael Domingo. This book was released on 2016-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book offers a theistic approach to secular legal systems and demonstrates that these systems are neither agnostic nor atheist. Critical but succinct in its approach, this book focuses on an extensive range of liberal legal approaches to religious and moral issues, and subjects them to critical scrutiny from a secular perspective. Expertly written by a leading scholar, the author offers a rare combination of profundity of ideas and simplicity of expression. It is a ringing defense of the theistic conception of secular legal systems and an uncompromising attack on the agnostic and atheist conception.
Author : Patrick M. Brennan
Release : 2017
Genre : Christianity and law
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Christian Legal Thought by : Patrick M. Brennan
Download or read book Christian Legal Thought written by Patrick M. Brennan. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.
Author : Jean L. Cohen
Release : 2015-12-22
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy by : Jean L. Cohen
Download or read book Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy written by Jean L. Cohen. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.
