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Religious traditions can be sources of values and attitudes supporting the liberal polity in ways that political theorizing and conceptions of public reason often fail to recognize. moreover, religious traditions can give support through the ways reason is crucial to their self-understanding. one understanding of Judaism is examined as an example. Also, the particularism of traditions can encourage commitment to universally valid values and ideals. reason's role in Judaism and other religious traditions makes possible constructive interaction between those traditions and between religious and secular thought. exclusion of religiously grounded considerations from the discourse and deliberations of liberal polities can be counterproductively illiberal.

The notions of autonomy and self-governance each capture something
crucial about the moral dimensions of agents and actions. These notions
are central to the ways in which we conceptualize ourselves and others.
The concept of autonomy is especially crucial to understanding the
distinct status of moral agents. For its part, self-governance has a
significant relation to the evaluation of agents as individuals with
particular characters, leading particular sorts of lives,
and performing particular actions. Neither notion—autonomy
nor self-governance—fully assimilates or dominates the other.
Moreover, there are some important strains between them. There are certain
forms of regard that the autonomy of an agent demands that are at
odds with what an agent's exercise of self-governance merits.
In this essay I plan to show this, and offer a diagnosis of why this is the
case.