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Recensione di R. Dworkin, Religione senza Dio / Religion without God

Abstract

This essay discusses the reasons that led Ronald Dworkin to present his view of the primacy of a Kantian-shaped kind of morality as a variety of “Religion without God” in his posthumous book with the same title. On the one hand, the analogy between Dworkin’s emphasis on enchantment and the definition of religion advanced by É. Benveniste in his Indo-European Language and Society (“religio is a hesitation, a misgiving which holds back”) is underlined. In this sense, Dworkin’s aim seems to show with his own example, contra Weber and Habermas, that there is a form of musicality tailored to secular thinkers. On the other hand, this view of religious musicality is criticized as monodic, enthralled by the metaphor of “shielded integrity”.