Makes the case for the importance of metaphysics in democratic political philosophy.
This book challenges two common mistakes in our current political discourse: that religion is merely a private, individual matter or, conversely, that religion should dominate public discourse. Moving beyond these blind alleys requires emphasis on the way of reason in both politics and religion. Democracy itself, the book argues, depends on the way of reason, and contemporary attacks on reason and argument are therefore not unrelated to the recent rise in authoritarianism and other forms of antidemocratic thought. In its effort to secure a metaphysical basis for democratic political theory, the book concentrates on the thought of the philosopher and theologian Franklin I. Gamwell while also relying on Charles Hartshorne in theistic metaphysics and John Rawls in political philosophy. Classical theism is criticized as is relativistic misology, the latter of which conceals a universal claim that all knowledge claims are restricted to a particular lifeworld. Throughout the book there is an effort to understand the necessary and the contingent as they relate to the virtue of toleration of reasonable differences in both religion and politics.
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"At a time when democracy's future seems uncertain, Dombrowski demonstrates that Gamwell's defense of democracy in service of justice offers an important way forward. Dombrowski masterfully integrates Gamwell's work in metaphysics, religious freedom, and political theory and brings this work into dialogue with important recent theorists, including Rawls, Dworkin, and Wolterstorff. This thoughtful and well-argued book is a crucial contribution to the defense of constitutional democracy that is our best hope for a just political order today." Mary Doak, author of Reclaiming Narrative for Public Theology
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Makes the case for the importance of metaphysics in democratic political philosophy.
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Liberalisms
2. Process Metaphysics
3. Two Metaphysical Claims
4. Contingency and Necessity
5. Aristotle, Kant, and Modern Moral Theory
6. MacIntyre, Rorty, Apel, and Habermas
7. Politics as a Vocation
8. Justice as Compound
9. Religious Freedom
10. A Rawlsian Response
11. American Intellectual History
12. Community
13. Applied Ethics
14. The Method of Reflective Equilibrium
Coda
Works Cited
Name Index
Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. His previous books include A History of the Concept of God: A Process Approach and Whiteheads Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, from Force to Persuasion, both published by SUNY Press.
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