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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... imagine that the global community of the future will be led by an Islamic cleric. Other cultures do not necessarily share this proselytizing attitude toward the alien other. They do not pursue a universal mission of either love or ...
... imagine ever more refined conceptions of political justice, as if the point of scholarship were to get the rules right. But, as I will argue in chapter 6, political life is much more than a set of rules: it is a practice of life and ...
... imagine himself in the original position, from which he will rationally derive the basic conditions and structures of fair cooperation in the society.7 The question, then, becomes which aspects of the individual self will be allowed ...
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