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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... original position that is a kind of pre- political abstraction. The same failure to attend to the unity of the particular historical community leads many liberals—not just theoreticians—uncritically to accept the global reach of liberal ...
... original position is equivalent to saying that rational deliberation satisfying certain conditions and restrictions would reach a certain conclusion.”); J. Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests 284 (J. Shapiro, trans., 1971) ...
... original position. From the point of view of this imagined discourse, differences are literally of no interest; they cannot even be seen. But, of course, they are exactly what is of most interest from the point of view of an individual ...
... original position represents by virtue of being that of everyman. “[W]e can view the choice in the original position from the standpoint of one person selected at random.”6 The person in the original position is everyone and anyone ...
... original position, but more surprisingly in contemporary multicultural critics of liberalism. The three most important defenders of multiculturalism against traditional liberalism— all Canadian—are Charles Taylor, William Kymlicka, and ...
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