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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 58
... efforts at conversion. Of course, we have had—and still have—our own hatreds. Nevertheless, that history of hatred tends to be understood within a narrative of progressive toleration, accepting the hated group into the political ...
... effort to explore the way in which our political life draws as much upon the Christian tradition of love and will as on the Enlightenment tradition of reason. Modern American political practices and beliefs have achieved a kind of ...
... in Rawls. In 1971, he claims that his work is “a part of a theory of rational decision” (A Theory of Justice at 16). Twenty years later, he disavows this claim, saying now that his effort PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE □ 17.
... , saying now that his effort is only to provide “an account of reasonable principles of justice” (J. Rawls, Political Liberalism at 53n.7 [1993]). 23 See J. Rawls, “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical,” 18 □ INTRODUCTION.
... effort to understand an ongoing set of practices within a liberal society, just as partisan political battles can be efforts to realize ideals clarified by, or even derived from, liberal theory. Starting at any one level, an ...
Contenido
1 | |
28 | |
9780691136981_4CH2pdf | 66 |
9780691136981_5CH3pdf | 113 |
9780691136981_6CH4pdf | 143 |
9780691136981_7CH5pdf | 183 |
9780691136981_8CH6pdf | 228 |
9780691136981_9CONpdf | 291 |
9780691136981_10INDpdf | 314 |