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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... truth for us : the autonomous character of the indi- vidual , the privileged place of reason , and a government that respects the distinction between the private and the public . These elements have a history as well as a conceptual ...
... truth is to be found in a turning away from politics. That turning away of the soul— toward God—is the source of liberalism's radical egalitarianism. But if liberalism bears the imprint of Christ on the cross, it equally bears that of ...
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