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Secularism a little Outside Liberalism

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The question then that this paper focuses on is what might be viable alternative secularist form of public reason? One that dovetails considerably with liberal secularism and its values of autonomy, equality and toleration, but at the same time is open to the concerns of theistic voices like Wolterstorf’s? This paper pursues this task first through engaging some strands of the corpus of an explicitly Thomistic public reasoner, Alasdair Macintyre, and then working in light of his concerns with secularism engaging two theorists crafting alternative secularisms, Charles Taylor and William Connolly. I argue that, like Macintyre and the liberals they define themselves against, both Taylor and Connolly suffer from a myriad of problems from relying upon a rather limiting ontology of potential modern moral sources (Taylor) to underemphasizing the hold of comprehensive doctrines (Connolly). Nevertheless these critical encounters of Taylor’s and Connolly’s models with Macintyre’s concerns do provide a rather vivid collection of insights into how one might develop a secularist model of public reason that steps a little outside contemporary liberalism.

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Redhead, Mark. "Secularism a little Outside Liberalism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39968_index.html>

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Abstract: The question then that this paper focuses on is what might be viable alternative secularist form of public reason? One that dovetails considerably with liberal secularism and its values of autonomy, equality and toleration, but at the same time is open to the concerns of theistic voices like Wolterstorf’s? This paper pursues this task first through engaging some strands of the corpus of an explicitly Thomistic public reasoner, Alasdair Macintyre, and then working in light of his concerns with secularism engaging two theorists crafting alternative secularisms, Charles Taylor and William Connolly. I argue that, like Macintyre and the liberals they define themselves against, both Taylor and Connolly suffer from a myriad of problems from relying upon a rather limiting ontology of potential modern moral sources (Taylor) to underemphasizing the hold of comprehensive doctrines (Connolly). Nevertheless these critical encounters of Taylor’s and Connolly’s models with Macintyre’s concerns do provide a rather vivid collection of insights into how one might develop a secularist model of public reason that steps a little outside contemporary liberalism.

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Secularism a Little outside Liberalism Mark Redhead CSUF APSA 2005 What do liberal democracies do with non-liberal citizens? This is an enduring concern in modern democratic discourse. For many the answer begins by either crafting or rearticulating a liberal secularist model of public reasoning. Examining how liberalism can and cannot accommodate not-so-liberal constituencies within a secular civil society liberals have repeatedly constructed homages to the resources within the liberal tradition from which to develop models of toleration that all
time his model is limited by its inability to take seriously the often empowering holds collective practices of faith can have on a believer and hence can’t account for the reasons why some like Taylor might legitimately devalue such critical openness in the face of ethical demands that flow from their faith. What the precise mixture of critical receptivity and hermeneutical sensitivity should be within a contemporary secular public ethos is a question that would take us well beyond


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