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Temi eticamente sensibili e libertà di coscienza : note a margine del libro di Flamigni e Mori sulla legge 40
No full textThe paper discusses the new book by Carlo Flamigni
and Maurizio Mori suggesting that
one of the powerful ideological support to Italian law on assisted reproductive tecnology (Legge
40/2004) has been the union of the idea of ethical sensitive issues with a wrong interpretation of
freedom of conscienc
Regole alimentari religiose e laicità dello Stato
No full textReligious Dietary Rules and State’s Secularism
abstract: The paper starts from a case of dietary pluralism to discuss the possibility to justify menus sensitive to different religious dietary rules in schools’ canteens. Building on an analysis of the idea of secularism, both in its legal interpretation and in its philosophical understanding in terms of neutrality, I try to show that providing for menus sensitive to different religious dietary rules does not amount to a breach of secularism; it is, rather, a legitimate consequence of the protection of individuals’ rights to freedom of conscience and religion. Moreover, whenever institutions take action to devise and implement such menus they can be taken to act on a commitment to respecting the beliefs of minority groups in society without expecting that these groups, which are often migrant communities suffering of well-known problems of social integration, take on the burden to put forward public claims
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