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15Rawls, Political Liberalism and Reasonable FaithCambridge University Press. 2016.For over twenty years, Paul Weithman has explored the thought of John Rawls to ask how liberalism can secure the principled allegiance of those people whom Rawls called 'citizens of faith'. This volume brings together ten of his major essays, which reflect on the task and political character of political philosophy, the ways in which liberalism does and does not privatize religion, the role of liberal legitimacy in Rawls's theory, and the requirements of public reason. The essays reveal Rawls as…Read more
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Two arguments from human dignityIn Adam Schulman (ed.), Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, [president's Council On Bioethics. 2008.
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5Why Political Liberalism?: On John Rawls's Political TurnOxford University Press USA. 2011.Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called "political turn.".
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20Review of John Christman, Joel Anderson (eds), Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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Religious Education and Democratic CharacterIn Nigel Biggar & Linda Hogan (eds.), Religious Voices in Public Places, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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12Review of John Rawls, A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin & Faith (with "on My Religion") (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (8). 2009.
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43Relational equality, inherent stability, and the reach of contractualismSocial Philosophy and Policy 31 (2): 92-113. 2015.
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39Review of Samuel Freeman, Justice and the Social Contract: Essays on Rawlsian Political Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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13Rawlsian liberalism and the privatization of religion. Three theological objectionsā€¯Journal of Religious Ethics 22 (1): 3-28. 2001.
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12Moral Psychology and Community (edited book)Taylor & Francis. 1999.First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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8Philip L. Quinn, 1940-2004Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (5). 2005.
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98Nicholas Wolterstorff's justice: Rights and wrongs: An introductionJournal of Religious Ethics 37 (2): 179-192. 2009.This introduction sets the stage for four papers on Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs , written by Harold Attridge, Oliver O'Donovan, Richard Bernstein, and myself. In his book, Wolterstorff defends an account of human rights. The first section of this introduction distinguishes Wolterstorff's account of rights from the alternative account of rights against which he contends. The alternative account draws much of its power from a historical narrative according to which theory an…Read more
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3Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (review)Philosophical Review 119 (3): 130-134. 2010.
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29Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic CitizenshipPhilosophical Review 120 (1): 130-134. 2011.
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26Inclusive Ends, Dominant Ends, and PoliticsProcess Studies 40 (2): 260-278. 2011.I have argued elsewhere that the overall method that is required in liberal political philosophy is that of reflective equilibrium and that this method can be best understood in processual terms. In the present article I try to show how neoclassical (and other) theists can bring their convictions to bear in a politically liberal society, within the confines of this method, in a rational (rather than irrational or mad) manner.
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1John Rawls and the task of political philosophyIn Catherine H. Zuckert (ed.), Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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62God's velveteen rabbitJournal of Religious Ethics 37 (2): 243-260. 2009.This article lays out a central argument of Wolterstorff's book, which I call the Argument from Under-Respect . That argument, I contend, is central to Wolterstorff's thought about wrongs and human rights. Close attention to the argument raises questions about whether Wolterstorff's account of rights can explain what a theory of rights must include: why violating rights wrongs the rights-bearer
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1Review of Gene Outka and John P. Reeder: Prospects for a Common Morality (review)Ethics 104 (4): 893-895. 1994.
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35Citizenship, Reflective Endorsement and Political AutonomyModern Schoolman 78 (2-3): 135-149. 2001.
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5Convergence and Political AutonomyPublic Affairs Quarterly 25 (4): 327-348. 2011.In this paper, I shall be concerned with public justification of law in what John Rawls calls "ideal theory." Ideal theory is generally so called because it depends upon idealizing assumptions, such as the assumption of citizens' perfect compliance with laws and principles of justice. A theory can, however, be ideal in another sense of that term. It can identify conditions that must be met for a society to realize various moral or political ideals. I am interested in the conditions under which a…Read more
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9Comment On Robert Audi's Democratic Authority And The Separation Of Church And StatePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 3 (2). 2013.download
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30Augustine's political philosophyIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 234--252. 2001.
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