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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... offers no more support for tolerance than for intolerance. From the fact of difference, nothing follows about whether to accept it or reject it. There may be no common ground upon which to justify condemnation, but neither is there a ...
... offers only a rough approximation of the scope of the inquiry. First, the terms suggest a kind of priority for the ontological, as if here we deal with the real or essential, while advocacy deals with the contingent or incidental. This ...
... offer an explanation of sacrifice. To speak of sovereignty—in the American case, popular sovereignty—is to speak of a relationship of meaning between the citizen and the community considered as a unified, historical subject. Our ...
... offer fair terms of cooperation to others,. 21 See Plato, Symposium 202E. 22 One sees this movement quite literally in Rawls. In 1971, he claims that his work is “a part of a theory of rational decision” (A Theory of Justice at 16) ...
... offer a thicker description of our own ethical and political practices. A liberal conception of interest must be set within a richer understanding of love, just as the liberal conception of politics as contract must be set within an ...
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