Democracy and Tradition
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After Virtue
Ambivalence
Atheism
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Black nationalism
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Christian
Christian ethics
Communitarianism
Conscience
Consideration
Cornel West
Critical thinking
Criticism
Critique
Deference
Deliberation
Democracy
Democratic ideals
Doctrine
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Ethics
Ethos
Explanation
Freedom of speech
God
Good and evil
Heresy
Humility
Ideology
Inference
Institution
Liberal democracy
Liberalism
Modernity
Morality
Narrative
Natural law
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Obligation
Pacifism
Philosopher
Philosophy
Piety
Political culture
Political philosophy
Politics
Postmodernism
Pragmatism
Premises
Principle
Public reason
Public sphere
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rationality
Reason
Religion
Resentment
Rhetoric
Richard Rorty
Secular liberalism
Secularism
Secularization
Self-Reliance
Social criticism
Social Practice
Stanley Hauerwas
Theology
Theory
Thomism
Tradition
Virtue
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691123820
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror? Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial position between those who view religious voices as an anathema to democracy and those who believe democratic society is a moral wasteland because such voices are not heard. Drawing inspiration from Whitman, Dewey, and Ellison, Jeffrey Stout sketches the proper role of religious discourse in a democracy. He discusses the fate of virtue, the legacy of racism, the moral issues implicated in the war on terrorism, and the objectivity of ethical norms. Against those who see no place for religious reasoning in the democratic arena, Stout champions a space for religious voices. But against increasingly vocal antiliberal thinkers, he argues that modern democracy can provide a moral vision and has made possible such moral achievements as civil rights precisely because it allows a multitude of claims to be heard.
Stout's distinctive pragmatism reconfigures the disputed area where religious thought, political theory, and philosophy meet. Charting a path beyond the current impasse between secular liberalism and the new traditionalism, Democracy and Tradition asks whether we have the moral strength to continue as a democratic people as it invigorates us to retrieve our democratic virtues from very real threats to their practice.
Jeffrey Stout is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of "Ethics after Babel" (Princeton) as well as essays and reviews in such journals as "The Monist, New Literary History", and "The Journal of Religion". He is a contributing editor of the "Journal of Religious" Ethics.
