Why Tolerate Religion?
：Why Tolerate Religion?
Publication subTitle ：Why Tolerate Religion?
Author： Leiter Brian;Leiter Brian;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400852345
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691163543
Subject： B911 宗教与社会政治
Keyword： 宗教,政治理论,法律
Language： ENG
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Description
This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.
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