Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 10 Ιαν 2009 - 336 σελίδες 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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... domain, we have tolerated difference. Toleration for some religious differences is deeply embedded in American history. Free speech, too, rests on a principle of liberal tolerance for difference. Intolerance appears at the margins of a ...
... domain of tolerable difference. But this strategy just returns us to the very practical problem from which we started: the problem of cultural pluralism.12 Normative systems are plural be- cause there is no agreement about the ...
... domains; we never get beyond the categories of our own imaginations, whether we are speaking of who we are or what we should do. Second, the distinction is consistently transgressed in both. 14 See C. Taylor, “Cross-Purposes: The Liberal ...
... domain of ab- stract ideas in which the uniqueness of the self is either irrelevant or a distraction. Interest, on the other hand, leads us in just the opposite direction: our interests have no truth apart from our particularity. Like ...
... domain of the private, this cannot be true of the faith that holds together the public world of politics. Religion, politics, and love all demand an understanding of the will that is simply unavailable in the liberal tradition. The ...
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