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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... require Saturday work, the Supreme Court has generally been willing to grant exemptions.4 Recently, however, it has inclined in the opposite direction, toward universalization.5 Even then, Congress has generally responded in the ...
... requires a willingness to abide by a common set of standards. A will in thrall to the infinite is not easily bound by the reasonable. Neither religious belief nor love is reasonable. Neither, in the end, are our political practices ...
... requires exploration of the development of a set of concepts that are not accountable to reason and beyond the range of most of the communitarian discourse: love, sacrifice, and will. These are the sub- jects of part II. □ □ □ □ THE ...
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