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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... Social contract. I. Title. JC574.2.U6K34 2005 320.51′0973—dc22 2004049132 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ press.princeton.edu Printed in the ...
... social norms and, consequently, very different expectations of politics. Europeans may be drawing together in a common political and moral order, but much of the rest of the world, from Africa to Asia, is following other patterns of ...
... social hatreds. Not only our religious traditions but also our political culture pursues a practice of proselytizing. Other people never appear as permanently alien; they appear instead as the object for our efforts at conversion. Of ...
... social groupings whether religious or ethnic, a demand for representative government limited by a doctrine of individual rights embodied in a rule of law administered by courts, and a general sense of the need for well-regulated markets ...
... Social Justice in the Liberal State 31–33 (1980); J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice127 (1971) (on moderate scarcity); D. Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature 486–88 (L. A. Selby-Bigge, ed., [1739] 1951) (on the circumstances of justice.) 18 See ...
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