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Alternative secularisms

Division of Political Science and Criminal Justice, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA

This article focuses on Charles Taylor’s and William Connolly’s attempts to fashion alternative forms of secular public reasoning to those of liberals like Rawls and Galston. I provide a weak defense of Taylor against both Connolly and many of Taylor’s liberal secular foes. Despite its noted shortcomings that Connolly can help to address, Taylor’s model does provide a more adequate basis for thinking through a public morality appropriate to the times because it takes seriously the hold certain values have on non-secular individuals, and thus is very much attuned to the realities of ethical deliberation in early 21st-century western democracies

Key Words: democracy • liberalism • pluralism • secularism • theism

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 32, No. 5, 639-666 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0191453706064900


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