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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... make it possible for me to do what I do. Finally, my debts to my family are unending. I hope that they can see themselves at the center of this book about love and politics. □ □ □ □ PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE Every.
... possible because the background values of the culture are not widely or deeply opposed. As a matter of law, we protect certain fundamental rights. Individuals and groups are free to live as they wish, as long as they respect fundamental ...
... possible forms of argument. But for those who find that autonomy an obvious and undeniable first principle, no claims by the other— whether the parishioner, the communitarian or the multiculturalist— will shake that faith. If arguments ...
... possible the experience of grace. This is the will as a capacity to experience. 20 See R. Flathman, Willful Liberalism: Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice 145 (1992). (“Difficult as it is to find postmedieval ...
... , occupies this space made possible by a conception and a technology of the self that can be simultaneously global and local. Cultural pluralism as a threat to liberalism marks a deep division PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE □ 25.
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