Secularism and Freedom of Conscience

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths...
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SKU: 9780674058651
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Author: Jocelyn Maclure
Format: Hardcover
Language: French
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Secularism and Freedom of Conscience by Maclure, Jocelyn

Secularism and Freedom of Conscience

¥14,818

Secularism and Freedom of Conscience

¥14,818
Author: Jocelyn Maclure
Format: Hardcover
Language: French

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism--equal respect, and freedom of conscience--and its two operative modes--separation of Church (or mosque or temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis religions. But more crucially, they make the powerful argument that in our ever more religiously diverse, politically interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical freedom.

Secularism and Freedom of Conscience grew out of a very real problem--Quebec's need for guidelines to balance the equal respect due to all citizens with the right to religious freedom. But the authors go further, rethinking secularism in light of other critical issues of our time. The relationship between religious beliefs and deeply-held secular convictions, the scope of the free exercise of religion, and the place of religion in the public sphere are aspects of the larger challenge Maclure and Taylor address: how to manage moral and religious diversity in a free society. Secularism, they show, is essential to any liberal democracy in which citizens adhere to a plurality of conceptions of what gives meaning and direction to human life. The working model the authors construct in this nuanced account is capacious enough to accommodate difference and freedom of conscience, while holding out hope for a world in which diversity no longer divides us.

Author: Jocelyn Maclure, Charles Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 10/24/2011
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.84w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780674058651
Language: French

About the Author
Maclure, Jocelyn: - Jocelyn Maclure is Professeur agrégé de philosophie at Université Laval.Taylor, Charles: - Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University and author of Sources of the Self, The Ethics of Authenticity, and A Secular Age. He has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada.

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