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Religion as a moral source: can religion function as a shared source of moral authority and values in a liberal democracy?

Religion as a moral source: can religion function as a shared source of moral authority and... Footnotes 1 For example, Ralph Ferve's recent book on the topic and the conference organized on the same theme and sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy Research. 2 Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (London: Duckworth, 1999), p. 2. 3 To clarify, the argument is not about religion as a communal value – as clearly religion can function as a source of value for particular communities – but about religion as a shared value for liberal democracies as a whole. 4 Strong divine command theories which claim that ‘divine choice is the defining condition of moral reality' and weak versions which allow that other factors are also influential in determining moral value, e.g., that ‘God issues the commands that he does because of his independent knowledge of the nature of right and wrong'. See Jeffrey Johnson, ‘Procedure, Substance and the Divine Command Theory’ in Philosophy of Religion Vol. 35 (1994), pp. 39–55. 5 Philip Quinn, Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), p. 26. 6 Plato ‘The Euthyphro’ in The Dialogues of Plato: Vol. 1, 2 nd edition translated by B. Jowett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892), p. 84. 7 Divine command theories http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

Religion as a moral source: can religion function as a shared source of moral authority and values in a liberal democracy?

Widdows, Heather
The Heythrop Journal , Volume 45 (2) – Apr 1, 2004
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Footnotes 1 For example, Ralph Ferve's recent book on the topic and the conference organized on the same theme and sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy Research. 2 Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (London: Duckworth, 1999), p. 2. 3 To clarify, the argument is not about religion as a communal value – as clearly religion can function as a source of value for particular communities – but about religion as a shared value for liberal democracies as a whole. 4 Strong divine command theories which claim that ‘divine choice is the defining condition of moral reality' and weak versions which allow that other factors are also influential in determining moral value, e.g., that ‘God issues the commands that he does because of his independent knowledge of the nature of right and wrong'. See Jeffrey Johnson, ‘Procedure, Substance and the Divine Command Theory’ in Philosophy of Religion Vol. 35 (1994), pp. 39–55. 5 Philip Quinn, Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), p. 26. 6 Plato ‘The Euthyphro’ in The Dialogues of Plato: Vol. 1, 2 nd edition translated by B. Jowett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892), p. 84. 7 Divine command theories

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