Reply to Kevin Carnahan and Erik A. Anderson |
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Authors: | Nicholas Wolterstorff |
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Affiliation: | 1. Philosophical Theology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 2. Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, 58 Sunnybrook SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506, USA
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Abstract: | In my response to Kevin Carnahan, I explain the concept of religion that I have been working with in my writings on the place of religious reasons in public political discourse. While acknowledging that religion is often privatized, my concern has been with religion as a way of life. It is religion so understood that raises the most serious issues concerning the role of religion in public discourse. In my response to Erik A. Anderson, I go beyond what I have previously said about the role of religious reasons in public discourse. As an alternative to Rawlsian public reason, I argue that the essence of liberal democracy is that every citizen is to have equal political voice. I go on to consider what it is to exercise one’s equal political voice as a moral engagement. |
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