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7 See Charles Taylor, 6 A profound statement of this worry remains Alexis de Tocqueville, University Press, 1992) and Americatrans. and ed. Daniel Donno (New York: Bantam Classics, 1981), p. 113. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994).The Ethics of AuthenticityModern Social Imaginaries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard (Durham, NC: Duke Democracy in
8 See Jeffrey Stout, from the Front: Theological Engagements with the SecularPress, 2004); Alasdair MacIntryre, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989); and Stanley Hauerwas, University Press, 2004).Democracy and TraditionWhose Justice? Which Rationality? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University (Durham, NC: Duke (Notre Dame, Dispatches
9 Amartya Sen, 10 The relation of freedom and rationality in the formation of the social contract University Press, 1994).W. W. Norton, 2006), p. 5.is actually quite complex. For some thinkers, say, Hobbes, the State raises when Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (New York:
it becomes rational for individuals to restrain their quest for power; reason imposes necessity on freedom. For other thinkers, the social contract embodies freedom insofar as it demarcates the domains of social liberties citizens can pursue, whatever their reasons. It is not possible or necessary in this chapter to enter into all of the nuances of social contract theory or, for that matter,
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KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992); H. Richard Niebuhr, Culture(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985); Thomas W. Ogletree, (New York: Harper, 1975); James M. Gustafson, Treasure in Earthen VesselsChrist and The World
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