The Proximity of Hippo to Harvard: A Very Belated Reply to Gilbert Meilaender
In response to Meilaender’s critique of my earlier work, I argue that Rawlsian and Augustinian ‘liberalisms’ are closer in spirit than Meilaender allows. Rawlsians and Augustinians can agree that the concern to preserve temporal peace under modern pluralistic conditions affords a warrant for politic...
| Published in: | Studies in Christian ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Studies in Christian ethics
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| RelBib Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCD Political ethics TK Recent history |
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B articles of peace B public reason B liberal neutrality B Political Liberalism B Bioethics B AUGUSTINIAN missions B Meilaender, Gilbert B First Amendment B religion clauses B Peace B Religious Freedom B God B John Courtney Murray B Meilaender B Rawls B Augustinians B equal liberty of conscience |
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| Summary: | In response to Meilaender’s critique of my earlier work, I argue that Rawlsian and Augustinian ‘liberalisms’ are closer in spirit than Meilaender allows. Rawlsians and Augustinians can agree that the concern to preserve temporal peace under modern pluralistic conditions affords a warrant for political arrangements that require allegiance to no particular all-encompassing world view. This agreement on a certain kind of political neutrality extends to constitutional essentials but does not prohibit appeals to particular comprehensive visions in political debate so long as such appeals are consistent with maintaining the social peace that liberal institutions are designed to preserve. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Friendly Rejoinders (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946816684446 |