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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... traditional values. My argument is not that the onto- logical character of the subject undermines the liberal ... traditions. While I do argue for some very abstract categories of self-understanding, the content of these categories is ...
... tradition, God speaks the world into being. There is a difference between God's speaking and Law—Speaking Law to Power: Popular Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the New In- ternational Order,” 1 Chi. J. Int'l Law 1 (2000). what it is that ...
... tradition share a core set of assumptions about the individual, the role of the polity, and the manner of constructing rules for both. Different liberal philosophers interpret these assumptions differently, and they assign different ...
... tradition, with its faith in reason's capacity to generate a just public order. All three are particularly con- cerned with the role of reason as public discourse in the liberal polity. Liberal theory aims to set forth the course of ...
... tradition in which the will refers to an experience that combines the universal quality of reason and the particularity of interest, but which is not reducible to either. Reason leads us beyond our particularity to a domain of ab ...
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