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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... reason among the 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 ...
... reason. It believes that politi- cal commitments as well as political order can and should be the prod- ucts of reason. If not literally the products of reason, still our political arrangements should be tested against the standards of ...
... reason is not, however, to abandon the self. For reason expresses that virtue of the self most emphasized by the mod- ern, liberal theorist. Reason supports autonomy, dignity, and public deliberation, on the one hand, and the liberal ...
... reason's capacity to generate a just public order. All three are particularly con- cerned with the role of reason as public discourse in the liberal polity. Liberal theory aims to set forth the course of reasonable delibera- tion that ...
... reason and interest. On this view, the will attaches to the products of reason or the objects of desire, but has nothing of its own to add.20 Opposed to this liberal idea of an empty will is a tradition in which the will refers to an ...
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