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Private consciences and public reasons / Kent Greenawalt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenawalt, Kent, 1936-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty of conscience--United States.
- Liberty of conscience.
- Religion and politics--United States.
- Religion and politics.
- Religion and state--United States.
- Religion and state.
- United States--Religion.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book addresses problems such as: what bases should officials and citizens employ in reaching political decisions and justifying their positions? Should they feel free to rely on whatever grounds seem otherwise persuasive to them, like religious convictions, or should they restrict themselves to "public reasons."
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Settling Sretna Bosna
- 3. Accessible and Nonaccessible Grounds of Political Decision
- 4. Religious Grounds and Grounds Based on Other Comprehensive Perspectives
- 5. Simple Arguments for No Restraint: Some Answers and Necessary Qualifications
- 6. Restraint as to Religious Grounds: Separation of Church and State
- 7. Excluding Grounds That Are Nonaccessible, Based on Comprehensive Views, or Based on Controversial Ideas of the Good Life
- 8. Acceptable and Unacceptable Religious Grounds?
- 9. No Restraint: Arguments from Religious Freedom, Equality, and Enrichment
- 10. Self-Restraint on Fundamentals
- 11. Autonomy, Generality, and Foundations of Principles of Restraint
- 12. Self-Restraint in Decision and Advocacy and Public Roles
- 13. Judicial Decisions and Opinions
- 14. Decision and Advocacy by Legislators and Citizens
- 15. Religious Organizations and Political Life
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed February 10, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9780199853021
- 0199853029
- 9781280527821
- 128052782X
- 9780198025412
- 0198025416
- 9780195357479
- 0195357477
- 9781429406093
- 1429406097
- OCLC:
- 476011144
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