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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... liberal theorist. THE LIMITS OF THE LIBERAL SELF While there is no single theory of liberalism, theories in the tradition share a core set of assumptions about the individual, the role of the polity, and the manner of constructing rules ...
... liberal theorists, the autonomous individual always has the capacity to redefine the relationship to his or her culture.16 Of course, a liberal state need not support equally every individual's conception of the good, and liberal ...
... liberal polity. Liberal theory aims to set forth the course of reasonable delibera- tion that autonomous individuals should pursue in order to give insti- tutional structure and procedural coherence to a common political life. Modern ...
... liberal will is fundamentally without content. When we speak of the social contract, the content of the will comes from reason. When we speak of market contracts, that content comes from interest. The liberal will is a kind of second ...
... liberal tradition. The reason at the center of liberalism rapidly becomes a demand that one's actions and one's demands be reasonable.22 Reasonable means moderate and reciprocal: one must offer fair terms of cooperation to others,. 21 ...
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