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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... truth of our own beliefs and practices, we are uncertain how to respond to those who live by different norms. We are all too aware that such differences exist, as we interact with cultures that put different values on life and death ...
... truths. We find Islamic states today—and even a Jewish state—but we do not find Christian states. The contemporary truths of the West are procedural and economic: the rule of. 1 Compare, e.g., K. Karst, “The Bonds of American Nationhood ...
... truth. The theoretical project, in the form of theological and philosophical inquiry, was to defend and elaborate that truth. Once the truth was grasped, there was no more difficulty in making it compulsory than there was in making ...
... truths; that is, those who accept the condi- tions that limit the domain of tolerable difference. But this strategy just returns us to the very practical problem from which we started: the problem of cultural pluralism.12 Normative ...
... truth apart from our particularity. Like interest, will is linked to the individual, finite being. There is no ab- stract or universal will. But will is not exhausted in the particularity of the individual. The will is the faculty by ...
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