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- Title
John Stuart Mill and John Henry Newman on Liberty and Conscience.
- Authors
George, Robert P.
- Abstract
This paper explores the nature and basis of religious liberty as a human right. The author argues that a right to hold, express, and act on one's beliefs about ultimate things follows from the moral duty to ask the great existential questions of human nature, dignity, and destiny, and to live with authenticity and integrity in line with one's honest answers. The duty, in turn, is grounded in the fulfillments on offer in asking and answering these questions and ordering one's life in with one's conscientious beliefs, fulfillments that are aspects of the integral flourishing of human beings as agents—free and rational creatures. The paper also offers some reflections on the scope and limits of the right to religious liberty.
- Subjects
MILL, John Stuart, 1806-1873; NEWMAN, John Henry, 1801-1890; LIBERTY; CONSCIENCE; TOLERATION
- Publication
Saint Anselm Journal, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 2, p40
- ISSN
2689-6230
- Publication type
Article