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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... nature of the individual and his or her relationship to the community. Disagreement, we fear, may go all the way ... natural science. Even as tolerant a country as our own has a past marked by little toleration for deep religious ...
... nature of the unity of the political community—in particular, of our political community. It is to turn from the rules of governance to the character of political meaning. Charles Taylor usefully labels this distinction as advocacy ...
... (1971) (on moderate scarcity); D. Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature 486–88 (L. A. Selby-Bigge, ed., [1739] 1951) (on the circumstances of justice.) 18 See Rawls, Theory of Justice at 48–51 (on reflective 14 □ INTRODUCTION.
... nature of Christian or Jewish faith. 25 Contemporary theorists who have appealed to Schmitt have tried to “tame” his friend-enemy distinction into a description of opposition within a democratic debate, that is, they have tried to ...
... nature of the law in what may be an emerging American Empire. Nor will we understand our deepest disagreements with our old European friends or our new enemies.27 WHAT IS TO COME My project necessarily moves back and forth between the ...
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