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    Addressing the debate inspired by John Rawls's restrictive idea of the political role of religion, Jürgen Habermas proposes the institutional translation proviso as an alternative that corrects an overly secularist notion of the state. Maeve Cooke has suggested that religious arguments can be allowed without translation in the institutional level as long as they are non-authoritarian. However, her definition of non-authoritarianism requires an acceptance of the fallibility of the truths acquired…Read more
  • This thesis discerns in the work of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas a set of existential and ethical demands made upon the human being by the factical condition of finitude—one’s own finitude (Heidegger) or that of Others (Levinas). For Heidegger, a demand issues from the fact of mortality, which calls for the human being to take up the task of building a life that responds to its relative brevity. For Levinas, a demand issues from the infinite otherness and finitude of the Other, for whom…Read more