Relativism and Religion: Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes
ISBN: 9780231540377
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Political theology; Democracy -- Moral and ethical aspects; Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Relativity;

Traces the roots of contemporary anti-relativist fears to the antimodern rhetoric of the Catholic Church and rescues a form of philosophical relativism for modern, pluralist societies.

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti is an assistant professor of political theory at City College, City University of New York, and an associate researcher at the Center for European Studies of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

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