Two Underappreciated Reasons to Value Political Tradition

Robson, Gregory

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“…Only few authors have argued that appeals to religious traditions can advance a discussion (Asad, 2009; MacIntyre, 1984; Scruton, 1984). During the last years, however, a group of philosophers has begun to re‐evaluate the justificatory role of tradition (Casal, 2021; Cohen, 2011; Heath, 2014; Robson, 2020; Scheffler, 2010; Wall, 2016). These philosophers defend the position that if certain conditions are met, traditions can, to some extent, be valuable.…”

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Four epistemic reasons to consult religious traditions

Kramm

2023

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In recent years, we can speak of an anti-liberal appropriation of the concepts of religion, tradition, and religious tradition. The label of religious tradition has been used to divide and mobilize voters. With the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian president Vladimir Putin has presented himself as the defender of traditional values against the liberal West (Agadjanian, 2017). In Poland, religious groups have criticized the liberal European project in the name of the Catholic tradition (Szumigalska, 2015). This raises the question of whether and how religious traditions can be addressed in liberal democratic states.In political philosophy and political theory, religion has often been reconstructed with a focus on beliefs (Asad, 2012). According to this notion of religion, belief has primacy over ritual, which has led to a neglect of religion as an embodied way of life that is manifested in individual behavior, in social practices, and in institutions (Mahmood, 2009). This emphasis on the role of religious beliefs has also led to a neglect of the role of religious traditions. Only few authors have argued that appeals to religious traditions can advance a discussion (Asad, 2009; MacIntyre, 1984;Scruton, 1984). During the last years, however, a group of philosophers has begun to re-evaluate the justificatory role

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Four epistemic reasons to consult religious traditions

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2023

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Magistrates, Mobs, and Moral Disagreement: Countering the Actual Disagreement Challenge to Moral Realism

Robson

2021

Can. J. of Philosophy

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I defend convergentist realism from counterarguments that appeal to apparently deep and widespread moral disagreement. Pace recent claims by antirealists, I first argue that scenarios such as the prominent “Magistrate and the Mob” case betray cognitive defects in subjects, such as partiality, that we would not find in ideal agents. After this, I defend three reasons to expect cross-cultural disagreement on moral cases even if convergentist realism is true. These defusing explanations concern individual and group moral development and the moral models on which agents rely. While developing my defense of moral realism, I aim for comprehensive engagement with responses to arguments by Doris, Plakias, and others that have been dispersed across several related articles.

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Two Underappreciated Reasons to Value Political Tradition

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Four epistemic reasons to consult religious traditions

Four epistemic reasons to consult religious traditions

Magistrates, Mobs, and Moral Disagreement: Countering the Actual Disagreement Challenge to Moral Realism

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