ISBN : 9782296552432
JOHN RAWLS AND THE LIBERAL ALTERNATIVES TO SECULARIS
In one of his last works, "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited"2 (PRR hereafter), John Rawls takes up the question of the relations between religion and democracy in a way that could provide alternatives to the French ideology of laicity or secularism. "How is it possible", he asks, "for citizens of faith to be wholeheartedly members of a democratic society who endorse society's intrinsic political ideals and values and do not simply acquiesce in the balance of political and social forces? … How is it possible - or is it - for those of faith, as well as the nonreligious (secular), to endorse a constitutional regime even when their comprehensive doctrines may not prosper under it, and indeed may decline?" (PRR: 149...