Naslov
Love as a Supreme Law for All: A Path to Ecumenical Justice

Autori
Savić, Vanja-Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
IVR Congress, XXIX World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law & Social Philosophy (Dignity, Democracy, Diversity, Universität Luzern

Mjesto i datum
Luzern, Švicarska, 07.07.2019. - 12.07.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Radionica

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Law, Love, Religion, Supreme Law, Ecumenical Justice

Sažetak
Most social and legal theorists accept that religion is important social phenomena, even if many of them are atheists or agnostics. Religious norms and customs historically became part of the normative word we live in today. It is pure fact that religious norms are present in the fabric of the modern-day legal systems, even in those who tend to declare themselves as purely secular. Every religion is system of norms which are valid for followers of particular religion and many times those have stronger impact on citizen’s life than positive norms of the law of the land. What if we can re-use religious norms of dignity, mutual understanding, help, friendship and assistance from most religions which have their rules about how to treat others in a human and friendly manner? Christianity, Islam and Judaism for instance, all have such norms. Similar provisions exist in other religions too. Increasingly the modern neo-liberal world marginalizes notions of religion and spirituality and in a such divided world, religious and secular try to close themselves in their ‘truths’. Instead of having ‘culture wars’ legal system and policy makers might find that there is a notion of love as a supreme law equally present in religious legal systems as well in secular norms of tolerance, acceptance and dignity. This is a path towards ecumenical justice where there should be a minimal standard for acceptance of everyone in all systems which have majority and minority issues. Principles of democracy (majority) and human rights (minority) can cohabitate and actually work in terms of acceptance in both ways. (This presentation will be associated with the topic of the book ‘Law, Religion and Love, Seeking Ecumenical Justice for the Other’ by Paul Babie and Vanja-Ivan Savić, recently published by Routledge, 2018.)

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo, Filozofija, Religijske znanosti (interdisciplinarno polje)

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