Understanding liberal democracy : essays in political philosophy / Nicholas Wolterstorff ; edited by Terence Cuneo.
พิมพ์ครั้งที่
1st ed.
พิมพลักษณ์
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
จำนวนหน้า
xii, 385 p. ; 24 cm.
หมายเหตุบรรณานุกรม
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-380) and index.
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
Part One: Public reason liberalism: 1. The paradoxical role of coercion in the theory of political liberalism -- 2. An engagement with rorty -- 3. The justicficatory liberalism of Gerald Gaus -- 4. What are the prospects for public reason liberalism? -- Part two: Re-thinking liberal democracy: 5. Liberal democracy as Equal political voice -- 6. Exercising one's political voice as a moral engagement -- Part Three: Perspectives on rights: 7. On secular and theistic groundings of human rights -- 8. Grounding the rights we have as human persons -- 9. The right of the people to a democratic state: reflections on a passage in althusisus -- 10. Accounting for the political authority of the state -- Part Four: Liberal democracy and religion: 11. Why can't we all just get along with each other? -- 12. Freedom for religion -- 13. Do christians have good reasons for supporting liberal democracy? -- 14. A religious argument for the civil right to freedom of religious exercise, drawn from american history -- 14. Habermas on religion and postmetaphysical philosophy in political discourse.