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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... norms. We are all too aware that such differences exist, as we interact with cultures that put different values on life and death, family and society, religion and the state, men and women. We constantly confront the question of whether ...
... norms and, consequently, very different expectations of politics. Europeans may be drawing together in a common political and moral order, but much of the rest of the world, from Africa to Asia, is following other patterns of order— or ...
... norms protective of individual dignity. This still leaves a wide range within which ordinary political forces, as well as individuals, make choices among competing norms. At times, certain values or norms become so important that they ...
... norms. When the Amish will not send their children to high school, or when Seventh-Day Adventists say they need unemployment compensation because they cannot accept jobs that require Saturday work, the Supreme Court has generally been ...
... norms, against which cultural practices and belief systems are to be measured. This is the approach pursued by ... norm. 8 See, e.g., Bangkok Declaration, adopted at the World Human Rights Conference Regional Preparatory Meeting (1993); M ...
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