Liberalism, blasphemy and religion

Title: Liberalism, blasphemy and religion
Creator: Tate, John William
Relation: Nebula Vol. 7, Issue 4, p. 135-142
Relation: http://www.nobleworld.biz/nebulajmsarchives/nebula74.html
Publisher: Samar Habib
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: Liberal democracies embody two competing political traditions – liberalism, which in various forms places a priority on individual liberty, and democracy, which defends the sovereign capacities of political majorities. This paper focuses on the liberal tradition and the complexities it encounters when confronting minority religious and cultural claims. At a philosophical level, democrats have little trouble dealing with minority claims. For instance, Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed the highest duty of a citizen was conformity to the general will, and those who failed to display this virtue must be “forced to be free”.
Subject: liberalism; blasphemy; religion; democracy
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931195
Identifier: uon:11014
Identifier: ISSN:1449-7751
Language: eng
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