“O meu reino não é deste mundo” : Ronald Dworkin e o desafio da religião

Daniel Peixoto Murata

doi:10.21875/tjc.v5i1.26738

Authors

Daniel Peixoto Murata Daniel Peixoto Murata é doutorando em Filosofia do Direito na University of Surrey (Reino Unido), bolsista em dedicação integral pela Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences da University of Surrey.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21875/tjc.v5i1.26738

Keywords:

Ronald Dworkin, Religion, Religious freedom, Robert George, Fundamental rights

Abstract

ABSTRACT:

The paper is a dialogue with Dworkin’s posthumous book, Religion Without God. Firstly, I intend to reconstruct accurately Dworkin’s argument in the book and in other recent writings, then I try to scrutinize how the dworkinian idea of a general right to ethical independence, instead of a special right to religious freedom, would apply in a concrete situation. Secondly, I analyze two objections that religious conservatives might advance against Dworkin’s liberal project. The first objection claims that the author unsuitably imports to religion a distinction between fact and value that is typical of philosophy, but not of religiosity. The second objection affirms that religion is a basic good of reflexive character, and not something individualistic as Dworkin defends. My conclusion is that religious freedom is a problem that demands a political solution, and that perhaps the most respectful position towards religion would recognize that some parts of it might be sacrificed in the name of other values we believe important.

Author Biography

Daniel Peixoto Murata, Daniel Peixoto Murata é doutorando em Filosofia do Direito na University of Surrey (Reino Unido), bolsista em dedicação integral pela Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences da University of Surrey.

Daniel Peixoto Murata é doutorando em Filosofia do Direito na University of Surrey (Reino Unido), bolsista em dedicação integral pela Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences da University of Surrey. Mestre em Filosofia e Teoria Geral do Direito pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (FDUSP), foi bolsista de mestrado pela Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP/processo: 2016/06243-0). Graduado em Direito pela FDUSP, foi estudante visitante na University of Glasgow (Escócia) e bolsista do Programa de Ensino Tutorial em Sociologia Jurídica (PET Sociologia Jurídica/SESu-MEC).

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