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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... of traditional practice and beliefs. These critiques purport to expose the manner in which the traditions carry forward entrenched status relationships. Is the traditional family, for example, a. INTRODUCTION. 9780691136981_2INT.pdf.
Paul W. Kahn. entrenched status relationships. Is the traditional family, for example, a cultural inheritance to be treasured and preserved, or does it perpetu- ate gendered role differentiation and patriarchal values that should be ...
... example, was the process marked by Roe v. Wade with respect to the right to choose an abortion. The most difficult internal clashes that we confront tend to emerge from minority religious groups outside of this broad value consensus ...
... example , gen- der equality . Affirmation and rejection are not abstractions . They in- voke passions and these passions run into each other , sometimes in a violent way . Societies may be defined by their hatreds as much as by their ...
... example is Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, which begins by look- ing at geopolitical conflict, but is led to a critique of cultural pluralism within the United States. 13 I have developed this conception of self-exploration in P ...
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