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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... live by different norms. We are all too aware that such differences exist, as we interact with cultures that put different values on life and death, family and society, religion and the state, men and women. We constantly confront the ...
... 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 choices among competing norms. At times ...
... live our lives within symbolic domains; we never get beyond the categories of our own imaginations, whether we are speaking of who we are or what we should do. Second, the distinction is consistently transgressed in both. 14 See C ...
... lives—even as we appealed to liberal values in structuring our law and institutions. The ambition of this part is not to offer an answer to the problem of cultural difference, but to illuminate from within the character of our own ...
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