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- Title
Must Democracy Be Secular?
- Authors
Audi, Robert
- Abstract
An essay is presented on secularism in democratic societies. It expounds on the principles on lawmaking as per the U.S. Constitution, liberty, equality and neutrality, and moral issues that highlight secular and religious beliefs such as the premise of life starting at conception and euthanasia. The author argues that democracy should be secular in a neutral sense and proposes the principles of protection of identity and universalizability ethics, akin to the Golden Rule, as partial solutions.
- Subjects
SECULARISM; DEMOCRACY; UNITED States. Constitution; RELIGION &; secularism; EUTHANASIA; GOLDEN rule
- Publication
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 2014, Vol 94, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1538-5914
- Publication type
Essay