By D. Malone-France
ISBN-10: 0230110711
ISBN-13: 9780230110717
ISBN-10: 1137039124
ISBN-13: 9781137039125
ISBN-10: 1349293199
ISBN-13: 9781349293193
Malone-France brings jointly vital topics from spiritual reports, philosophy, and political idea to articulate a basic re-conception of non secular religion and an leading edge argument for traditional liberal norms.
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36 Now it is not my intention, here, to equate Socratic anxiety with skepticism. I, for one, entertain “sentiments more favorable to human reason” than those, at times, expostulated by Hume. Yet as a committed liberal democrat, I find his description of a mode of reasoning and 36 Faith, Fallibility, and the Virtue of Anxiety living that is chastened by a recognition of one’s own (and everyone else’s) ultimate fallibility very appealing. I, personally, do believe that human understanding can claim some genuinely objective knowledge of the world as it is independently of our own mental-linguistic constructions—even if this knowledge can only be expressed through the employment of such constructions.
Thus anxiety cannot be “overcome”; it can only be suppressed. And as I discussed in relation to Kantian liberalism in Chapter 1, it is precisely such suppression of anxiety that psychologically precedes and enables political coercion. 26 Faith, Fallibility, and the Virtue of Anxiety If I believe that it is possible to be “certain beyond a doubt” about the rightness of some moral claim, then, arguably, I can feel justified in asserting that I have the right to override the autonomy of those who disagree with or live at variance from this claim, for their own good.
While an overly anxious attitude regarding one’s beliefs can lead to an undesirable moral and political paralysis—or an overly reactionary assertion of supposed “certainty” meant to mask the deeper sense of insecurity, an appropriately moderated and rationalized attitude of anxiety can go far in promoting other democratic virtues, such as intellectual curiosity, cooperativeness and a willingness to compromise, and genuine tolerance of others’ beliefs and lifestyles. Moreover, anxiety, in the sense just outlined, represents a powerful, and in some ways less problematic, alternative to the notion of ‘tolerance’ as the organizing virtue in discussions of the basis of democratic norms.
Faith, Fallibility, and the Virtue of Anxiety: An Essay in Religion and Political Liberalism by D. Malone-France
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