Western moral and political theory since the 1800s has widely held that morality and politics are independent of a divine reality. Claiming that this consensus is flawed, and without appealing to the beliefs of any specific religion, Franklin Gamwell defends a return to the view that moral and political principles depend on a divine purpose. Engaging in a dialogue with such major representatives of the dominent consensus as Kant, Habermas and Rawls, and informed by the philosophical writings of Alfred North Whitehead, this text makes the case for a neoclassical metaphysics that restores a religious sensibility to our political life.
- ISBN10 0878407642
- ISBN13 9780878407644
- Publish Date 30 March 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 August 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Georgetown University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English