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Hardcover Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy Book

ISBN: 0268009546

ISBN13: 9780268009540

Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy

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Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail.

Stout traces the secularization of public discourse and its effect on the relation between theism and culture as well as the severance of morality from traditional moorings in favor...

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