Many Of Our Most Serious Conflicts Are

The Question Is, We Have A Particular Problem. How Many Religions Are There In The United States? How Are They Going To Get On Together? One Way, Which Has Been The Usual Way Historically, Is To Fight It Out, As In France In The Sixteenth Century. That's A Possibility.

Properly Understood, Then, The Desire To Act Justly Derives In Part From The Desire To Express Most Fully What We Are Or Can Be, Namely Free And Equal Rational Beings With The Liberty To Choose.

There Are Two Kinds Of Comprehensive Doctrines, Religious And Secular. Those Of Religious Faith Will Say I Give A Veiled Argument For Secularism, And The Latter Will Say I Give A Veiled Argument For Religion. I Deny Both. Each Side Presumes The Basic Ideas Of Constitutional Democracy, So My Suggestion Is That We Can Make Our Political Arguments In Terms Of Public Reason. Then We Stand On Common Ground. That's How We Can Understand Each Other And Cooperate.

The Perspective Of Eternity Is Not A Perspective From A Certain Place Beyond The World, Nor The Point Of View Of A Transcendent Being; Rather It Is A Certain Form Of Thought And Feeling That Rational Persons Can Adopt Within The World ... Purity Of Heart, If One Could Attain It, Would Be To See Clearly And To Act With Grace And Self-command From This Point Of View.

A Society Regulated By A Public Sense Of Justice Is Inherently Stable.