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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... Individuals and groups are free to live as they wish, as long as they respect fundamental norms protective of individual dignity. This still leaves a wide range within which ordinary political forces, as well as individuals, make ...
... individual against the group here, we will do so nowhere. A tolerance based on respect for choice easily becomes a. 4 See Wisconsin v. Yoder 406 U.S. 205 (1972); Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963). 5 See Employment Division, Dept ...
... 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 that the global ...
... individuals, a skepticism toward fixed hierarchies, broad acceptance of diverse social groupings whether religious or ethnic, a demand for representative government limited by a doctrine of individual rights embodied in a rule of law ...
... individual choices. Conversely, belief that community relationships are constitutive of individual identity may lead to the advocacy of traditional values. My argument is not that the onto- logical character of the subject undermines ...
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