HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
“Equal Respect for Conscience”:
Roger Williams on the Moral
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By Martha C. Nussbaum
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Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and
Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Philosophy Department, Law
School, and Divinity School. In spring 2007, she was Visiting Professor of Law and
Frontiers of Justice (2006), The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence,
and India’s Future (2007), and Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s
Tradition of Religious Equality (forthcoming 2008).
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I. This “wild and howling land”
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II. “To ship my selfe all alone in a poore Canow”: Williams’s Rhode Island
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III. “This Conscience is found in all mankinde”10: Williams’s Defense of
Religious Liberty.
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IV. A “Model of Church and Civil Power”14
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V. Comparisons: Locke and Rawls
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Political Liberalism
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A Theory of Justice
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Notes
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of
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The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy
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The Puritan
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