Liberal Democracy and Moral Anthropologies

1.  Liberal democracy, understood as democracy committed *both* to the inherent dignity and inviolability of every human being *and* to certain human rights, is something, I say again, we all here do affirm.

2.  Liberal democracy, thus understood, does not assert, entail, or presuppose a particular moral anthropology--though it does assert the inherent dignity and inviolability of every human being.

3.  Many who affirm liberal democracy typically also affirm (at least implicitly) a moral anthropology--though not all who do so affirm the same moral anthropology.

4.  I have expressed skepticism, in much of my work over the past several years, that the claim that every human being has inherent dignity and is inviolable can be embedded in a secular world view.