Jeffrey Stout
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Jeffrey Stout is a writer, an ethicist, and a scholar of religion. His works focus on the possibility of ethical discourse in a religiously pluralistic society. Recently, he has championed what he calls "the moral tradition of democracy" as a "background of agreement" shared by most participants in the political/social debates taking place in America today. This is his answer to such thinkers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Hauerwas who believe that such debates do not share enough common ground to prevent them from being intractable. Stout is heavily influenced by Richard Rorty and the school of philosophy known as American Pragmatism.
Currently, Stout is a Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
His two most well-known books outside of narrow academic circles are Ethics After Babel (1989) and Democracy and Tradition (2003).
He has cold urticaria and is allergic to most melons.[citation needed]
