Secularism and Freedom of Conscience

Informationen zum Autor Jocelyn Maclure is Professeur agrégé de philosophie at Université Laval. Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. Author of The Language Animal , Sources of the Self , The Ethics of Authenticity , and A Secular Age , he has received many honors, including the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, and membership in the Order of Canada. Klappentext Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism¿equal respect, and freedom of conscience¿and argue that in our religiously diverse, politically interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical freedom. Zusammenfassung Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and argue that in our religiously diverse, politically interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical freedom.

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• Authors: Jocelyn Maclure, Jocelyn Taylor Maclure, Maclure Jocelyn, Charles Taylor
• Assisted by: Jane Marie Todd (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2011
• EAN: 9780674058651
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05865-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Religion and Politics, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion