Liberals are not Communitarian

In this article the author deals with Hugo T. Engelhardt's answer to an uneasy question: whether religious bioethics should be privatized in a pluralist society or, alternatively, if it should be set apart. Engelhardt starts by discussing four different meanings of secular and secularism. Lastly, he states that no religious arguments can be adopted to support any particular public policy. The author claims that Engelhardt's idea of a secular state in the face of moral pluralism has to be much more clarified. Two questions are open: how pluralism must be conceived of and how the pluralistic society can exist peacefully during the time. The solution that Engelhardt offers -- a 'more than minimal' state -- seems hardly tenable without adopting a 'modus vivendi'.