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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... 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 both an ...
... moral order, but much of the rest of the world, from Africa to Asia, is following other patterns of order— or disorder. These cultural differences are deeply entwined with differ- ences in material circumstances as well as political ...
... moral truths of others. We appeal to the idea of human rights—“It is the law,” we say—but beneath the legal rhetoric we find disagreement about the nature of the individual and his or her relationship to the community. Disagreement, we ...
... moral debate and protected as a matter of fundamental law. This, for example, was the process marked by Roe v. Wade with respect to the right to choose an abortion. The most difficult internal clashes that we confront tend to emerge ...
... moral relativism. In this extreme form, there is no foundation from which one can gain sufficient purchase to make any compelling criticism of different cultures. Every criticism is thought to rest on a particular community's values ...
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