An Awareness of What is Missing

In 2007 Habermas debated a group of Jesuit philosophers at the Munich School of Philosophy. This volume prints his lecture and the four responses, with his reply. Habermas, a lifelong secular thinker, argues that post-secular societies cannot simply discard religious traditions as irrational, because they carry moral intuitions that secular reason has not managed to replace. The traffic must run both ways. Religious citizens are obliged to translate their claims into reasons any citizen could weigh.