The Dworkinian Religion of Value
Journal of Law and Religion 29.3, 2014, 526-534.
9 Pages Posted: 10 Mar 2017
Date Written: March 9, 2017
Abstract
The paper argues that, although well-articulated, Dworkin’s approach to religion and religious freedom belittles both the idea of God and the idea of religion. It undervalues God, by considering him just an untested scientific hypothesis (an alleged fact) without value of his own. Dworkin reduces God to a metaphor. For this reason, for Dworkin the existence of God, god or gods is epistemologically irrelevant. The conviction of the existence of God and the profound ethical and moral convictions are not so independent as Dworkin argues they are (RwG, pg. 146).
Keywords: Dworkin, value, religion, religious freedom
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