Liberty and the Law

Law, liberty, and Christian morality

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...

After Cologne: male circumcision and the law. Parental right, religious liberty or criminal assault?

Non-therapeutic circumcision violates boys' right to bodily integrity as well as to self-determination. There is neither any verifiable medical advantage connected with the intervention nor is it painless nor without significant risks. Possible negative consequences for the psychosexual development of circumcised boys (due to substantial loss of highly erogenous tissue) have not yet been suffic...

Liberty and community in constitutional law: the abortion cases in comparative perspective.

Liberty, Gender, and the Family

The Relation between Liberty and Justice in Ali Shariati’Political Thought

Ethical tenets and political systems are one of the most controversial terminologiesin philosophy ofethics and politicalthought.That is why thinkers based upon theirintellectual  standpoint  have  reached  different  inferences  and  definitions  andelaborated  various  aspects  of  it  accordingly.Shariatisimilar  to  his  precedingthinkersmade the creation of ethicalpolitical system one of hi...