Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931195
- Title
- Liberalism, blasphemy and religion
- Author/Creator
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Tate, John William
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business & Law, Newcastle Business School
- 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”.
- Relation
- Nebula Vol. 7, Issue 4, p. 135-142
- Relation
- http://www.nobleworld.biz/nebulajmsarchives/nebula74.html
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Samar Habib
- Keyword(s)
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liberalism;
blasphemy;
religion;
democracy
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931195
- Identifier
- ISSN:1449-7751
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