How Long to Read Secular Conscience

How Long Does it Take to Read Secular Conscience?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Secular Conscience by Austin Dacey

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Dacey passionately argues for a revitalized secular conscience as an ongoing, open-ended, fallible but serious and assertive conversation about morality.... With its discussions of the history, philosophy, theology, and science of how people think and talk about ethical truth, this book deserves to have significant impact upon the revitalization of the public sphere. Accessibly written, but with detailed scholarly and technical footnotes. Highly Recommended.-CHOICEIn a dazzling display of erudition, this book presents a cogent argument for secular liberalism....Dacey''s presentation is especially timely in view of the emphasis by some current presidential candidates on their religious identity....Dacey''s analysis helps to put this question into the larger perspective of liberty and conscience....This is a thoughtful, well-reasoned argument for progressive secularism.-PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAustin Dacey''s The Secular Conscience is sorely needed at a time when both the religious right and the religious left claim that there can be no public or private morality without religion. With wit and a philosopher''s insight, Dacey explains exactly why secular morality, grounded in an ethical approach that relies on reason rather than supernatural faith, must be restored to the public square.-SUSAN JACOBY, Author, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism and The Age of American UnreasonA beautiful primer on how our secular tradition can be rescued from self-defeat....This is an extraordinarily useful and lucid book.-SAM HARRIS, Author of the New York Times best sellers The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian NationFrom Washington to the Vatican to Tehran, religion is a public matter as never before, and secular values - individual autonomy, pluralism, separation of religion and state, and freedom of conscience - are attacked on all sides and defended by few. The godly claim a monopoly on the language of morality, while secular liberals stand accused of standing for nothing.Secular liberals did not lose their moral compass: they gave it away. For generations, too many have insisted that questions of conscience - religion, ethics, and values - are private matters that have no place in public debate. Ironically, this ideology hinders them from subjecting religion to due scrutiny when it encroaches on individual rights and from unabashedly advocating their own moral vision in politics for fear of imposing their beliefs on others.In his incisive new book, philosopher Austin Dacey calls for a bold rethinking of the nature of conscience and its role in public life. Inspired by an earlier liberal tradition that he traces to Spinoza and John Stuart Mill, Dacey urges liberals to lift their self-imposed gag order and defend a renewed secularism based on the objective moral value of conscience.Dacey compares conscience to the press in an open society: it is protected from coercion and control, not because it is private, but because it has a vital role in the public sphere. It is free, but not liberated from shared standards of truth and right. It must come before any and all faiths, for it is what tells us whether or not to believe. In this way, conscience supplies a shared vocabulary for meaningful dialogue in a diverse society, and an ethical lingua franca in which to address the world.Further Praise for The Secular Conscience:The Secular Conscience breathes new life into an old topic. Dacey thinks outside the box. His argument for allowing believers back into the ''public square'' - and then subjecting them to a forceful critique - is fresh and convincing, as is his surprising critique of the reasoning in Roe v Wade. And his chapters on secular ethics are superb.-PETER SINGER, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton UniversityWith intellectual vigor and moral confidence, Austin Dacey demonstrates the self-defeating fallacies of efforts to privatize individual conscience and belief. Secularists and non-theists should heed his call to join pu

How long is Secular Conscience?

Secular Conscience by Austin Dacey is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Secular Conscience Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Secular Conscience aloud.

What Reading Level is Secular Conscience?

Secular Conscience is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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