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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... matters of degree or of inter- pretation of common standards. Rather, we have radically different understandings of the appropriate social norms and, consequently, very different expectations of politics. Europeans may be drawing to ...
... matter of law, we protect certain fundamental rights. Individuals and groups are free to live as they wish, as long as they respect funda- mental norms protective of individual dignity. This still leaves a wide range within which ...
... matter of fundamental law. This, for 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 ...
... matters of sovereign choice . The move from recogni- tion of difference to intervention was not a large move at all.1o ... matter of right — for example , gen- der equality . Affirmation and rejection are not abstractions . They in- voke ...
... matter of advocacy may really have a tendency to build citizen character in the way liberals conceive of the self—as an autonomous subject who applies reason to individual choices. Conversely, belief that commu- nity relationships are ...
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