Book contents
- The Coerced Conscience
- The Coerced Conscience
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Texts and Abbreviations
- 1 A New Kind of Politics?
- 2 John Milton and Expressive Conscience
- 3 Thomas Hobbes and Instilled Conscience
- 4 Baruch Spinoza and Conscientious Speech
- 5 Pierre Bayle and Tormented Conscience
- 6 The Politics of Conscience
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - The Politics of Conscience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2023
- The Coerced Conscience
- The Coerced Conscience
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Texts and Abbreviations
- 1 A New Kind of Politics?
- 2 John Milton and Expressive Conscience
- 3 Thomas Hobbes and Instilled Conscience
- 4 Baruch Spinoza and Conscientious Speech
- 5 Pierre Bayle and Tormented Conscience
- 6 The Politics of Conscience
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The conclusion of this book bridges past and present to consider pressing controversies on religious freedom and liberty of conscience in American politics today, utilizingtwo case studies from across the political spectrum. The former concerns a florist who refuses to design floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding, and the latter concerns a humanitarian aid worker who harbors undocumented migrants at the US-Mexico border. Over the course of this book, I register the myriad of ways in which each figure sharpens our thinking about contemporary debates on liberty of conscience, and in the end, I side with Bayle in his recognition of the psychological infringement of hypocritical conformity worthy of abatement when possible.
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- The Coerced Conscience , pp. 108 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023