Contributi di Andrea Romeo

SOMMARIO: 1. “A tradition under threat”. Antropologia della paura e tendenze esclusiviste delle comunità dominanti - 2. La tradizione filosofica del pensiero costituzionale: Williams, Madison e i princìpi cardine della tradizione di “religious fairnes” - 3. Forme di Benign Establishment: critica alla tesi della “presunta innocuità” e interpretazione autentica del principio di separazione - 4. Neutralità statale e speciale considerazione del fenomeno religioso: un rapporto problematico.

Liberty of conscience and liberty of religion on the challenge of the post-modernity: the Martha C. Nussbaum's philosophical jurisprudence

ABSTRACT: Nussbaum is one of the prominent defenders of the North American liberal tradition, threatened by the post-modern tendency to the exaltation of elements from the mainstream religion and the creation of in-groups between citizens. In his writings, the philosopher reproposes the value of liberal tradition by trying to show the impossibility to justify even the most venial forms of the benign establishment, as in the case of state-sponsored-religious-displays. The article focuses on Nussbaum'arguments, in a critical perspective.

Sommario: 1. “Religious lawyering”: la lotta per un movimento accademico – 2. Il possibile ruolo della religione nella deontologia forense – 3. Le critiche della concezione tradizionale e l’idea della morale di ruolo – 4. Problemi teologici di traduzione in forma deontologica – 5. Argomenti religiosi e dibattito pubblico di legal ethics.

ABSTRACT: “Juristen, böse Christen (?)”. Religion and Legal Ethics in the Theory of Law. This article focus on the question of whether religious studies contribute to legal ethics and professional lawyer’s life. Notoriously, religion's role in legal ethics is difficult to define, also because many scholars, belonging to the standard dominant view, disagree about the same nature of legal ethics concepts. Beginning in the late 1970s and especially during the 1990s, the emerging religious lawyering movement started to analyzes whether and how religion values could be integrated into day-to-day law practice. Today, this academic movement challenges the morality-role idea and try to claim a public dimension for the religious commitment.

SOMMARIO: 1. Due forme di giustificazionismo: inclusivo ed esclusivo - 2. Il giustificazionismo moderato di Gerald Gaus - 3. Il principio di motivazione secolare e le problematiche operative - 4. Due modelli a confronto: convergenza vs. consensus - 5. Verso una formulazione minimal del proviso di giustificazione - 6. Alcune notazioni critiche: la sovrapposizione tra i concetti di motivo e ragione e il fraintendimento sull’overlapping consensus - 7. Giustificazionismo e accomodation : possibili implicazioni?

Abstract: According to the justificatory liberalism view, to respect each citizen as free and equal requires that no one simply be forced to submit to the judgments of others; then is necessary laws must be justified to those subject by reasons that everyone could share. There are two different perspectives: justificatory liberalism inclusive and justificatory liberalism exclusive; only for the second view is not binding to expunge religious-based reasoning from political justification. Gerald Gaus claims that the model of consensus is based on a misleading intepretation of the overlapping consensus conception: "because we cannot reasonably expect all members of the public to actually endorse religious reasons as good reasons, they are not justificatory reasons". Gaus define a conceptual political system inspired to the possibilities of convergence and also try to challenge the standard formulation of the liberal proviso by offering a miminalist reformulation of the translation clause. The paper analize and criticize this inclusive model of justificatory liberalism.
 

SOMMARIO: 1. Il dibattito sul ruolo delle voci religiose nella sfera pubblica – 2. La peculiare strategia di Jeremy Waldron: theoretical authorities e practical authorities - 3.- Implicazioni metaetiche e operative dell’appello alle theoretical authorities – 4. Il problema dell’inintelligibilità delle argomentazioni religiose – 5. Dall’inintelligibile all’universalizzabile. Le ragioni di un sostanziale fraintendimento.

Religion Contributions in the public sphere : a critical reading to the position of Jeremy Waldron

ABSTRACT: The article focuses on the Jeremy Waldron’s lecture of the relationship between religion and democracy . Waldron argues that in public deliberations religious citizens can refer directly to religious arguments making reference to the "theoretical authority” of religion. The religious commandments would be worth , in the field of morality, like Paul Krugman’s theories in the field of economy; so when, in the political public square, arguments based on religious beliefs are produced it sounds equivalent to make calling, exclusively, to the "theoretical authority" of religion, not certainly to his authority practice.