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| Religious liberty: Freedom of religion is the right to choose, practise and propagate a religion without state or social interference or discrimination. It includes both the freedom to belong to a religion and the freedom not to have a religion. This right is enshrined in many international human rights documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Rawls on Religious Liberty - Dictionary of Arguments
I 211 Religious freedom/Rawls: The theory of justice as fairness provides strong arguments for equal freedom of consciousness for the members of a society to be established and also for the primacy of general freedom, freedom of thought and... --- I 212 ... freedom of religion. However, the latter may be regulated by the state's interest in public order and security. The state must not favour religion and must not punish the lack of a religious attitude. Infidelity or disbelief from belief is not investigated, and much less punished. In this respect, the state upholds moral and religious freedom. The limits of freedom of consciousness are drawn by the Community's interest in order and security. However, this does not mean that such a public interest is more important than moral and religious interests. The conception of a fair constitution simply does not allow the practice of religion to be restricted, nor does it allow science and art. --- I 213 Limits are derived solely from the principle of the public interest. Any task of generally accepted reasoning would imply a primacy of certain attitudes over other attitudes. Such a principle would never be adopted in the initial situation._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Rawl I J. Rawls A Theory of Justice: Original Edition Oxford 2005 |
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