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Article: A Clash of Orthodoxies: An Exchange.
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Josh Dever
As an atheist, a liberal, and a philosopher, I suppose I'm as likely as anyone to qualify as a proponent of Robert P. George's "secular orthodoxy" ("A Clash of Orthodoxies," August/September 1999). As such, I'd like to say a few words in defense of that orthodoxy. I want to raise three categories of objection to Professor George's comments: first, that his characterization of that orthodoxy is highly tendentious; second, that the philosophical failings of that orthodoxy are not nearly so numerous as Prof. George takes them to be; and third, that the corresponding philosophical triumphs of the "Judeo-Christian" worldview are not so triumphant as he ...