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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... position between a discredited claim to 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 ...
... position. Our ambition must be to create a space from within which to assess our own norma- tive beliefs and practices, which include, but are hardly exhausted by, liberalism. This is not a neutral space from which to judge others, nor ...
... position that is a kind of pre- political abstraction. The same failure to attend to the unity of the particular historical community leads many liberals—not just theore- ticians—uncritically to accept the global reach of liberal norms ...
... position from which to evaluate difference. Gaining this understand- ing of ourselves will not tell us directly what to do, as if the problem of theory is to work out a practical calculus of tolerance. But self- awareness is a necessary ...
... position over the years. While the refinements may improve the theory, they do not improve on his first book's translation of the liberal core of the culture into a philosophical position. A Theory of Justice reached a kind of “reflec ...
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