Emily R Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 317265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily R Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily R |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bradley University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0707-5550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life, by Christoph Baumgartner
Religious Pluralism, the Nondelegation Rule, and Fulton v. Philadelphia
In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the city of Philadelphia could not exclude a Catholic Social Services agency from the city’s foster care system because it would not work with same-sex couples. Access to foster care agencies, however, is a public benefit that should not involve religious qualifications interposed by a nongovernmental organization. When aided by public funds, religious organizations sho…
Religious Values in Liberal Democracy
Religious values neither wholly threaten nor wholly reinforce the stability of liberal democracy. This depends upon how they may be interpreted and applied. The recent influence of Christian nationalists, who would promote a specific interpretation of Christianity as the only legitimate basis for public policy, and of those who would elevate religious liberty above all other rights, does not promote pluralism. Although people should be able to li…
Philosophical Dimensions of the Constitution
Beyond Immutability: Sexuality and Constitutive Choice
Advocates for the equality and dignity of LGBT persons often suggest that the immutability of sexual orientation is their strongest argument. I believe that it is a weak one. First, the individual freedom that liberalism accords to people, absent harm to others, as necessary for human flourishing applies to sexuality as well as to other areas of existence. Second, the distinction often made between status and conduct is a false one, and the argum…
An Argument for Same-Sex Marriage: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality
The First Amendment, Varieties of Neutrality, and Same-Sex Marriage
This article compares the difficulty in achieving a public stance of neutrality toward sexual orientation with the difficulty in achieving neutrality toward religious belief. Strict separation treats religion as a private commitment, with firm limits on government cooperation with religion and strong protection for free exercise. Formal neutrality discounts religion as a basis either for conferring special benefits or for withholding generally av…
Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique
Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique. By Lisa H. Schwartzman. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2006. 224p. $45.00. In this book, Schwartzman argues that liberalism's methodological individualism and its neutrality through abstraction from social contexts and relations of power render it a questionable approach for those who would challenge the oppression of women or, by extension, of other traditionally subordinated…
The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule
The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule. By Roger M. Barrus, John H. Eastby, Joseph H. Lane, Jr., David E. Marion, and James F. Pontuso. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. 174p. $70.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. In this short but provocative book, the authors argue that Americans' interest over the last century in expanding democratic responsiveness to the popular will has resulted in a diminution of represent…
Religious Organizations, Charitable Choice, and the Limits of Freedom of Conscience
In this article, I consider the claims made by those who advocate greater inclusion of religiously based organizations in the public realm. I examine two ostensibly "religion-blind" models—pluralist-accommodationist and noncognizant—used to justify inclusion, along with current jurisprudence, in the context of President Bush's faith-based initiative. I contend that corporate freedom of conscience in its state-sponsored applications often unfairly…
What's the Matter with Liberalism? Ronald Beiner
MacIntyre, Rationality, & the Liberal Tradition
Alasdair MacIntyre argues that the liberal tradition lacks standards of rational justification and relies instead on interminable debate. In critiquing MacIntyre's view, this article contends that liberalism is neither marked by more interminable debate than previous traditions nor is it more lacking in the resources for resolving such debate. Indeed, the author argues that liberalism meets MacIntyre's description of a tradition
Justice: Views from the Social Sciences. Ronald L. Cohen
Walzer's Complex Equality: Constraints & the Right to Be Wrong
Michael Walzer's account of justice is a particularist one that is often criticized by advocates of a universalist approach. One criticism, on which this article focuses, is that Walzer's emphasis upon the collective liberty of the community overrides any guarantee of individual rights against the community. The author argues that Walzer's particularist account contains universalist implications that transcend neutrality as to a good society and …
Books in Review
Modern Authoritarianism: A Comparative Institutional Analysis. Amos Perlmutter
Property and Liberal Goals
Property as the right to unlimited appropriation is not, as critics like C. B. Macpherson suggest, a constitutive principle in the political morality of conventional liberalism. First, the use of money does not justify Macpherson's conclusion that Locke supports a natural right to unlimited appropriation. Second, Locke's property right is an inclusive rather than solely exclusive right and may be regulated by convention in political society. Fina…
Bentham. James Steintrager
Choice Is Not Enough
Choice Is Not Enough
Justice in Adam Smith: The Right and the Good
We are not ready to suspect any person of being defective in selfishness. This is by no means the weak side of human nature, or the failing of which we are apt to be suspicious. [Smith, M.S., VII, II, iii, p. 39]1 The wise and virtuous man is at all times willing that his own private interest should be sacrificed to the public inter? est of his own particular order or society. He is at all times willing, too, that the greater interest of this ord…
Size and Democracy
Size and Democracy
Obligation and Dissent: An Introduction to Politics
Religious Organizations, Charitable Choice, and the Limits of Freedom of Conscience
In this article, I consider the claims made by those who advocate greater inclusion of religiously based organizations in the public realm. I examine two ostensibly "religion-blind" models—pluralist-accommodationist and noncognizant—used to justify inclusion, along with current jurisprudence, in the context of President Bush's faith-based initiative. I contend that corporate freedom of conscience in its state-sponsored applications often unfairly…
Beyond Immutability: Sexuality and Constitutive Choice
Advocates for the equality and dignity of LGBT persons often suggest that the immutability of sexual orientation is their strongest argument. I believe that it is a weak one. First, the individual freedom that liberalism accords to people, absent harm to others, as necessary for human flourishing applies to sexuality as well as to other areas of existence. Second, the distinction often made between status and conduct is a false one, and the argum…
Religious Values in Liberal Democracy
Religious values neither wholly threaten nor wholly reinforce the stability of liberal democracy. This depends upon how they may be interpreted and applied. The recent influence of Christian nationalists, who would promote a specific interpretation of Christianity as the only legitimate basis for public policy, and of those who would elevate religious liberty above all other rights, does not promote pluralism. Although people should be able to li…
Walzer's Complex Equality: Constraints & the Right to Be Wrong
Michael Walzer's account of justice is a particularist one that is often criticized by advocates of a universalist approach. One criticism, on which this article focuses, is that Walzer's emphasis upon the collective liberty of the community overrides any guarantee of individual rights against the community. The author argues that Walzer's particularist account contains universalist implications that transcend neutrality as to a good society and …
MacIntyre, Rationality, & the Liberal Tradition
Alasdair MacIntyre argues that the liberal tradition lacks standards of rational justification and relies instead on interminable debate. In critiquing MacIntyre's view, this article contends that liberalism is neither marked by more interminable debate than previous traditions nor is it more lacking in the resources for resolving such debate. Indeed, the author argues that liberalism meets MacIntyre's description of a tradition
Obligation and Dissent: An Introduction to Politics
Size and Democracy
Size and Democracy
Choice Is Not Enough
Choice Is Not Enough
Justice in Adam Smith: The Right and the Good
We are not ready to suspect any person of being defective in selfishness. This is by no means the weak side of human nature, or the failing of which we are apt to be suspicious. [Smith, M.S., VII, II, iii, p. 39]1 The wise and virtuous man is at all times willing that his own private interest should be sacrificed to the public inter? est of his own particular order or society. He is at all times willing, too, that the greater interest of this ord…
Bentham. James Steintrager
Property and Liberal Goals
Property as the right to unlimited appropriation is not, as critics like C. B. Macpherson suggest, a constitutive principle in the political morality of conventional liberalism. First, the use of money does not justify Macpherson's conclusion that Locke supports a natural right to unlimited appropriation. Second, Locke's property right is an inclusive rather than solely exclusive right and may be regulated by convention in political society. Fina…
Modern Authoritarianism: A Comparative Institutional Analysis. Amos Perlmutter
Books in Review
Walzer's Complex Equality: Constraints & the Right to Be Wrong
Michael Walzer's account of justice is a particularist one that is often criticized by advocates of a universalist approach. One criticism, on which this article focuses, is that Walzer's emphasis upon the collective liberty of the community overrides any guarantee of individual rights against the community. The author argues that Walzer's particularist account contains universalist implications that transcend neutrality as to a good society and …
Justice: Views from the Social Sciences. Ronald L. Cohen
MacIntyre, Rationality, & the Liberal Tradition
Alasdair MacIntyre argues that the liberal tradition lacks standards of rational justification and relies instead on interminable debate. In critiquing MacIntyre's view, this article contends that liberalism is neither marked by more interminable debate than previous traditions nor is it more lacking in the resources for resolving such debate. Indeed, the author argues that liberalism meets MacIntyre's description of a tradition
What's the Matter with Liberalism? Ronald Beiner
Religious Organizations, Charitable Choice, and the Limits of Freedom of Conscience
In this article, I consider the claims made by those who advocate greater inclusion of religiously based organizations in the public realm. I examine two ostensibly "religion-blind" models—pluralist-accommodationist and noncognizant—used to justify inclusion, along with current jurisprudence, in the context of President Bush's faith-based initiative. I contend that corporate freedom of conscience in its state-sponsored applications often unfairly…
The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule
The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule. By Roger M. Barrus, John H. Eastby, Joseph H. Lane, Jr., David E. Marion, and James F. Pontuso. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. 174p. $70.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. In this short but provocative book, the authors argue that Americans' interest over the last century in expanding democratic responsiveness to the popular will has resulted in a diminution of represent…
Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique
Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique. By Lisa H. Schwartzman. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2006. 224p. $45.00. In this book, Schwartzman argues that liberalism's methodological individualism and its neutrality through abstraction from social contexts and relations of power render it a questionable approach for those who would challenge the oppression of women or, by extension, of other traditionally subordinated…
The First Amendment, Varieties of Neutrality, and Same-Sex Marriage
This article compares the difficulty in achieving a public stance of neutrality toward sexual orientation with the difficulty in achieving neutrality toward religious belief. Strict separation treats religion as a private commitment, with firm limits on government cooperation with religion and strong protection for free exercise. Formal neutrality discounts religion as a basis either for conferring special benefits or for withholding generally av…
An Argument for Same-Sex Marriage: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality
Beyond Immutability: Sexuality and Constitutive Choice
Advocates for the equality and dignity of LGBT persons often suggest that the immutability of sexual orientation is their strongest argument. I believe that it is a weak one. First, the individual freedom that liberalism accords to people, absent harm to others, as necessary for human flourishing applies to sexuality as well as to other areas of existence. Second, the distinction often made between status and conduct is a false one, and the argum…
Philosophical Dimensions of the Constitution
Religious Values in Liberal Democracy
Religious values neither wholly threaten nor wholly reinforce the stability of liberal democracy. This depends upon how they may be interpreted and applied. The recent influence of Christian nationalists, who would promote a specific interpretation of Christianity as the only legitimate basis for public policy, and of those who would elevate religious liberty above all other rights, does not promote pluralism. Although people should be able to li…
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life, by Christoph Baumgartner
Religious Pluralism, the Nondelegation Rule, and Fulton v. Philadelphia
In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the city of Philadelphia could not exclude a Catholic Social Services agency from the city’s foster care system because it would not work with same-sex couples. Access to foster care agencies, however, is a public benefit that should not involve religious qualifications interposed by a nongovernmental organization. When aided by public funds, religious organizations sho…
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