The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths
A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Taliaferro, Karen, ca. 20./21. Jh., The possibility of religious freedom] (2020) (Tollefsen, Christopher, 1968 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Law and Christianity
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781108423953 |
| Summary: | A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources. Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Religion and Law in Late Modernity -- Modernity, Reason, and Law -- Law as Human: A Story of Modernity and Rationality -- Adrift in Modern Freedom: Tocqueville, Authority, and the Role of Religion -- Liberalism, Democracy, and Religious Freedom -- Religious Freedom: Where Are We Today? -- Freedom of the Person or the Community? -- Liberal Neutrality -- Epistemological Divergence: Hobbes and Higher Knowledge -- The Dilemma of Religious Freedom -- Democratic Solutions, Democratic Complications -- Natural Law -- Natural Law as Mediating Law -- Natural Law and Religious Freedom: A Proposal -- Objections to Natural Law -- Conclusion -- 2 Antigone: The Tragedy of Human and Divine Law -- A Tale of Two Laws -- Hubris' Two Faces -- Antigone's Readers -- Hegel: Conflict to Achieve Right -- Antigone's Agonistic Politics? -- The Impossibility of Antigone -- The Impossibility Thesis: Sophocles' Gods and Ours -- Natural Justice in Aristotle's Interpretation of Antigone -- Ismene: Democracy's Peril and Promise -- Antigone, Natural Law, and Religious Freedom -- 3 Maimonides' Middle Way: Teleology as a Guide for the Perplexed -- From Alluding to Articulating: Aristotle and the Formation of Natural Law Theory -- Kalām, Philosophy, and Maimonides' Method -- Maimonides and Natural Law -- Classes of Law -- Saadya's Alternative -- Conclusion -- 4 Between Sharīʿa and Human Law: Ibn Rushd and the Unwritten Law of Nature -- The Need for Islamic Natural Law Philosophy -- Ibn Rushd and Philosophy -- Ontology of the Unwritten Law -- Ibn Rushd's Unwritten Law and Aristotle's Natural Justice -- Epistemology of Ibn Rushd's Natural Law: Elite Knowledge and Common Knowledge -- Ibn Rushd's Unwritten Law and Islam -- The Natural Law as Real Law. |
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| ISBN: | 110833444X |