Christopher Eberle

Christopher Eberle is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the United States Naval Academy. The author of Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics (Cambridge, 2002) and various journal articles, he is currently writing a book on religion, just war and military service in a liberal democracy.

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Friday, March 14th, 2008

An ideal of conscientious engagement

Many political theorists, pundits and even presidential candidates have advocated some variation on the claim that religious and secular reasons have a differential justificatory potential: at least some kinds of secular reason, but no kinds of religious reason, suffice to justify coercive laws in a pluralistic democracy….I disagree with this differential treatment of the religious and the secular — not only Habermas’ particular formulation, but any position relevantly like it.

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