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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... rule of. 1 Compare, e.g., K. Karst, “The Bonds of American Nationhood,” 21 Cardozo L. Rev. 1141 (2000), with S. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996). 2 See R. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy ...
Paul W. Kahn. of the West are procedural and economic: the rule of law, democracy, and free markets. We wonder ... rules of mathematics. As long as the good and the true were believed to be one and the same, moral science had the same ...
... rule of law - all institutions founded on our belief in the equal- ity and liberty of every person . This dogged commitment to a universal community is a product of both our Christian and Enlightenment tra- 10 This political antinomy ...
... individual rights embodied in a rule of law administered by courts, and a general sense of the need for well-regulated markets to satisfy material wants. These liberal values do not, however, explain the PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE 9 □
... rules that should operate within that commu- nity. Rather than look to the origins of the particular community, they are more likely to look to an original position that is a kind of pre- political abstraction. The same failure to ...
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