http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/10/27/secularism-belief-and-truth/ Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/10/27/secularism-belief-and-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-69141 Thaddeus Kozinski Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:08:03 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=26973#comment-69141 Yes, we need an alliance-like structure that doesn’t try to make people virtuous or impose a conception of the true and good, because of sociological pluralism. But, why does no one talk about the need for a polis-like structure for each community united by an exclusive conception of the good and true in which virtue-making is the common good? Yes, these communities have the private right to exist, but they are, by fiat, not permitted self-governance in a public way with legal teeth? Why not? This seems to me not neutral secularism but an imposition by the state of the privatization of the good, and it is anti-religious and anti-moral. Why is it not permitted with a nation-state for a small community who would like to give its church legal privileges in the community to do so?

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