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Clayton, Matthew and Stevens, David (2019) Further thoughts on talking to the unreasonable. Res Publica, 25 (2). pp. 273-281. doi:10.1007/s11158-019-09417-4 ISSN 1356-4765.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-019-09417-4
Abstract
In ‘When God Commands Disobedience’ (Clayton and Stevens 2014) we address the question of how Rawlsian political liberals should treat the religiously unreasonable. The religiously unreasonable are those who, for reasons of religious faith or perceived divine command, reject one or more of the fundamental principles of society as a cooperative enterprise between free and equal people, and who may seek to change (or even punish) the political community in line with their comprehensive religious beliefs. We argue, first, that political liberals have weighty reasons to engage with the unreasonable. However, second, following Hobbes (1991) in observing that divine law trumps law enacted by humans, we argue that the response to those who claim to have theistic reasons for acts that are unreasonable by liberal standards must be a theological one: political liberals must be prepared to offer a direct religious response. They must offer reasons aimed at establishing that the unreasonable are mistaken about the political implications of their religious doctrine or about the soundness of the particular religious doctrine they affirm.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political science, Religion and politics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Res Publica | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1356-4765 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 25 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 273-281 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11158-019-09417-4 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 September 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 April 2019 | ||||||||
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