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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 92
... religion and the state, men and women. We constantly confront the question of whether some of the practices supported by these values are beyond the limits of our own commitment to a liberal moral philosophy and a political practice of ...
... religion a source of values to be protected or of irrationality to be cabined? Is ethnicity a legitimate or an illegitimate source of political difference? Confronting this internal pluralism, we wonder how much normative difference can ...
... religious difference (consider the treatment, at various times, of Mormons, Catholics, and Muslims), for claims of racial and gender equality, or for the beliefs of non-Western immigrants and Native Americans. Yet forcing people to ...
... religious groups outside of this broad value consensus. With respect to these groups, we inevitably feel a double-pull: an instinct toward charitable toleration—it seems to cost us little to tolerate difference—and an opposite impulse ...
... religious doctrine but as a form of understanding of self and community. Much of this study is an effort to explore the way in which our political life draws as much upon the Christian tradition of love and will as on the Enlightenment ...
Contenido
1 | |
28 | |
9780691136981_4CH2pdf | 66 |
9780691136981_5CH3pdf | 113 |
9780691136981_6CH4pdf | 143 |
9780691136981_7CH5pdf | 183 |
9780691136981_8CH6pdf | 228 |
9780691136981_9CONpdf | 291 |
9780691136981_10INDpdf | 314 |