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Articles by Sebastián Rudas

Novos Estudos CEBRAP, 2021

O artigo identifica duas abordagens usuais na análise da laicidade no Brasil. Uma é inclusiva e d... more O artigo identifica duas abordagens usuais na análise da laicidade no Brasil. Uma é inclusiva e diz respeito às religiões públicas, enquanto a outra é exclusiva e diz respeito à justificação pública do uso do poder do Estado. Argumenta-se que estas são duas dimensões da laicidade que constituem, de forma coerente, um conceito unificado do significado normativo do Estado laico.

Ethic@, 2021

Una crítica común al multiculturalismo señala que este es tolerante con las restricciones interna... more Una crítica común al multiculturalismo señala que este es tolerante con las restricciones internas, esto es, con restricciones a los derechos básicos de integrantes de las minorías vulnerables al interior de las minorías culturales. Este artículo responde a esa crítica, identificando tres motivaciones que fundamentan al multiculturalismo como teoría política normativacomunitarista, pluralista, individualista-y argumentando que la tolerancia con las restricciones internas solo es compatible con la primera y la tercera. Argumento también que la tolerancia con las restricciones internas del multiculturalismo individualista no es consecuencia de la lógica normativa de esta concepción de la justicia y, por lo tanto, no se ve afectado por la crítica. De esta manera, el artículo revindica al multiculturalismo individualista como una teoría de la justicia y sugiere su relevancia para analizar preguntas de justicia social de los pueblos indígenas de América Latina.

Kriterion, 2021

According to the democratic interpretation of public reason, political justification ought to app... more According to the democratic interpretation of public reason, political justification ought to appeal to the tacit dimension or common sense of society's actual historical moment. This article claims that a consequence of this interpretation is that religious reasons can be stable public reasons. More specifically, it claims that religious reasons can be public reasons in pervasively religious communities that are democratic, even in circumstances of ongoing social secularization. Three theoretical consequences are derived from this claim: first, democratic public reason assumes more social integration than other interpretations of public reason; second, religious reasons are not always inaccessible to non-believers; and third, religious reasons, when public reasons, can have normative force upon non-believers. Additionally, the following practical implication is made explicit: while justification of state power can appeal to religious reasons only, the law cannot be written in religious terms.

Ideas y Valores, 2019

De acuerdo con la postura dominante sobre la laicidad, ésta debe ser concebida en relación con el... more De acuerdo con la postura dominante sobre la laicidad, ésta debe ser concebida en relación con el reconocimiento del pluralismo y prestando atención a no reproducir sesgos antirreligiosos. En este artículo se defiende una propuesta alternativa: la laicidad como anticlericalismo, cuyo elemento distintivo consiste en instaurar un arreglo institucional de ‘separación estricta’ y de exclusión de los contenidos religiosos de las instituciones del Estado. Se argumenta que esta forma de concebir la laicidad responde adecuadamente a la pregunta por el lugar de la religión en la esfera pública en el contexto de los Estos liberales y democráticos latinoamericanos.

Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum, 2017

Moralized secularism is the view that “secularism” is defined in relation to certain moral values... more Moralized secularism is the view that “secularism” is defined
in relation to certain moral values. Jocelyn Maclure and
Charles Taylor’s “liberal pluralism” is an influential version of
moralized secularism, for it states that freedom of conscience
and equal respect are the fundamental moral values of
secularism. I present the objection that secularism is a
redundant category because it carries no distinctive normative
content that cannot be found in the more general, and less
divisive, terminology of liberalism and democracy. In order to
avoid this objection, I argue for conceiving secularism in a
nonmoralized way. According to my view, secularism refers
solely to the institutional arrangements that a state can put in
place in order to address conflicts with organized religion(s)
that might emerge at the moment of advancing its ideological
political project (e.g., liberalism, republicanism). Through this
interpretation, it is possible to conceptualize expressions of
secularism that are either not liberal (i.e., republican) or not
motivated by the acknowledgment of new forms of pluralism
as being the prime challenge a state faces for advancing its
political project (i.e., anticlerical). As the redundancy
objection shows, this is a possibility that moralized accounts
of secularism preclude.

Croatian Journal of Philosophy , 2019

In Liberalism's Religion, Cécile Laborde defends a theory of liberal sec-ularism that is compatib... more In Liberalism's Religion, Cécile Laborde defends a theory of liberal sec-ularism that is compatible with a minimal separation of religion and politics. According to her view, a liberal state -she calls it Divinitia- that symbolically establishes the historic majority's religious doctrine and inspires some of its legislation on a conservative interpretation of such religious tradition can be legitimate. In this article I analyse how is it like to belong to the minority of liberal progressive citizens in a country like Divinitia. I argue that their political activism will be defeated by Divini-tia's status quo on at least four different grounds. First, in virtue of being a minority, liberal progressive citizens would rarely obtain democratic victories; second, the conservative majority could rightly argue that they do not have reasons to compromise their views in order to accommodate progressives'; third, the conservative majority can rightly complain that counter-majoritarian initiatives advanced by progressives are unfair; and four, Divinitia's public reason reproduces an asymmetry, for religiously inspired reasons can be accessible and therefore justifi catory in politics, while the reasons progressives would desire to present in public deliberation would not be accessible to their conservative fellow citizens.

Chapters by Sebastián Rudas

Religion and Political Theory: Secularism, Accommodation and The New Challenges of Religious Diversity (Rowman & Littlefield International), 2019

Uncorrected proofs of a book chapter published in: Jonathan Seglow and Andrew Shorten (Eds.) Reli... more Uncorrected proofs of a book chapter published in: Jonathan Seglow and Andrew Shorten (Eds.) Religion and Political Theory: Secularism, Accommodation and The New Challenges of Religious Diversity (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019) pp. 39-56.

Book Reviews by Sebastián Rudas

Veritas , 2021

Resenha de LANDEMORE, Hélène. Open Democracy. Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Centu... more Resenha de LANDEMORE, Hélène. Open Democracy. Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020