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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... universal moral truth and an incapacitating moral relativism; practical, when we must decide how to respond to groups and individuals that offend our own values. THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL PLURALISM The problem of cultural pluralism has ...
... universal norms. We are no longer quite so confident of the status of our own 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 ...
... universal and the particular. Compromise is 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 ...
... universal values and supporting norms, against which cultural practices and belief systems are to be measured. This is the approach pursued by contemporary advocates of human-rights law. Alternatively, we can begin from the perception ...
... universal nor the particular seems firm ground from which theory can direct practice. Multiculturalism would not pose a problem if the plurality of values could simply be aggregated—like adding another wing to a museum. The problem of ...
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