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(2004) Philosophy of religion for a new century, Dordrecht, Springer.
In several papers, published over a period of almost a decade, Robert Audi has worked out an account of what he takes to be the proper role of religion in the politics of religiously pluralistic democracies. His recent book, Religious Commitment and Secular Reason, sets forth a fully developed and comprehensive version of that account. In this paper, I examine critically the part of Audi's account that is devoted to the ethics of democratic citizenship. I focus on his treatment of this topic in the book for two reasons. Since the book's discussion of the ethics of democratic citizenship advocates views that have been revised in the light of criticism of the work in the earlier papers, this discussion is the strongest available version of Audi's position. Moreover, it comes closer to representing his current thinking on the topic than do the earlier papers. Fairness to Audi demands that I concentrate my critical fire on the strongest and most recent version of his treatment of the ethics of democratic citizenship.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2074-2_18
Full citation:
Quinn, P. L. (2004)., Religion and politics, fear and duty, in J. Hackett & J. Wallulis (eds.), Philosophy of religion for a new century, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 307-328.
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