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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... moral autonomy may be a bedrock first principle for us and an immoral denial of the primacy of a community of faith for others. Are we forced to say either too much or too little? As long as we focus on difference itself, we cannot ...
Paul W. Kahn. the moral subject is hardly a convincing argument to those who accept neither that view of the subject nor the primacy of reason among the possible forms of argument. But for those who find that autonomy an obvious and ...
... both. 14 See C. Taylor, “Cross-Purposes: The Liberal-Communitarian Debate,” in Liberal- ism and the Moral Life 159 (N. Rosenblum, ed., 1989). 15 This conception of the relationship of sovereignty to law 10 INTRODUCTION □
... moral epistemology. It combines a theory of reason and a conception of interest to construct a political world divided between the private and the public. My ambi- tion is to put liberalism in its place by juxtaposing to it other norma ...
... moral commitments, we could lose faith in the popular sovereign. Something like this was true for those radical abolitionists who declared the Constitution to be a “covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”26 On the other hand ...
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