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From the Bottom Up - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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From the Bottom Up - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of
articles and essays written over the last five decades of his
career. They cover a wide range of topics, many of which address
ties between political and moral philosophy and what the law does
and should provide. A broad general theme is that in all these
domains, what really is the wisest approach to difficult
circumstances often depends on the particular issues involved and
their context. Both judges and scholars too often rely on abstract
general formulations to provide answers. A notable example in
political philosophy was the suggestion of the great and careful
scholar, John Rawls, that laws should be based exclusively on
public reason. The essays explain that given uncertainty of what
people perceive as the line between public reason and their
religion convictions, the inability of public reason to resolve
some difficulty questions, such as what we owe to higher animals,
and the feeling of many that their religious understanding should
count, urging exclusive reliance on public reason is not a viable
approach. Other essays show similar problems with asserted bases
for legal interpretations and the content of provisions such as the
First Amendment.
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