Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 336 páginas In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of law and the edge of nuclear annihilation. We can understand this modern condition only by recognizing that any political community, even a liberal one, is bound together by faith, love, and identity. |
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... capacity of each individual to enter a rational debate that will result in mutual agreement. No one, we believe, is beyond conversion to our values. When we dream of a global order, we project our own values onto it. We do not imagine ...
... capacity for rational deliberation but do not necessarily share a common set of interests. For most liberal theorists, the autonomous individual always has the capacity to redefine the relationship to his or her culture.16 Of course, a ...
... capacity to generate a just public order. All three are particularly concerned with the role of reason as public discourse in the liberal polity. Liberal theory aims to set forth the course of reasonable deliberation that autonomous ...
... capacity to experience. 20 See R. Flathman, Willful Liberalism: Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice 145 (1992). (“Difficult as it is to find postmedieval philosophers who do not regularly employ the term will ...
Paul W. Kahn. grace. This is the will as a capacity to experience an ultimate or transcendent value as an historical experience in the world. Neither reason nor interest provides access to a world that shows itself as an image and ...
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