Open AccessAcquiring Universal Values through a Particular Tradition: A Perspective on Judaism and Modern Pluralism
Author(s) -
Jonathan Jacobs
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal for philosophy of religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 1689-8311
DOI - 10.24204/ejpr.v5i2.231
Subject(s) - polity , pluralism (philosophy) , judaism , constructive , sociology , religious pluralism , public reason , politics , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , multiculturalism , environmental ethics , religious studies , philosophy , law , political science , democracy , theology , process (computing) , artificial intelligence , computer science , operating system , pedagogy
Religious traditions can be sources of values and attitudes supporting the liberal polity in ways that political theorizing and conceptions of public reason often fail to recognize. moreover, religious traditions can give support through the ways reason is crucial to their self-understanding. one understanding of Judaism is examined as an example. Also, the particularism of traditions can encourage commitment to universally valid values and ideals. reason’s role in Judaism and other religious traditions makes possible constructive interaction between those traditions and between religious and secular thought. exclusion of religiously grounded considerations from the discourse and deliberations of liberal polities can be counterproductively illiberal.