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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... less fundamental than that of commonality. This is the approach of those who perceive in human rights discourse a neocolonial, Western enterprise.8 Each approach, when released from the practical compromises of an ongoing enterprise ...
... different aspects of this core. Still, none would place faith above reason in the construction of public norms; none would affirm that some individuals are worth less than others; PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE □ 13.
Paul W. Kahn. would affirm that some individuals are worth less than others; and all agree that individuals must be relatively free to set for themselves their own conception of the good. Liberal theorists believe in the primacy of ...
... nation-state as we have understood it for the last two hundred years. Political meanings may remain no less vital even as the geography of the political may be shifting. Finally a word on the scope of the inquiry. Just 26 □ INTRODUCTION.
... less than a form of prejudice. Worse, it is an intolerant privileging of the self, which is the source of all prejudice. Thus, “the veil of ignorance prevents the parties from invoking inappropriate reasons, given the. 3 See J. Rawls, A ...
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