Putting Liberalism in Its PlacePrinceton University Press, 2009 M01 10 - 336 pages 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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... of sovereignty to law raises particular prob- lems for international law. See P. Kahn, “American Hegemony and International 18 See Rawls, Theory of Justice at 48–51 (on reflective PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE 11 □
... justice. I do not mean to substitute a politics of sacrifice and love for one of reason and contract; this is not a work in advocacy. Rather, our poli- tics already is one of love and sacrifice; reason finds its place within this ...
... Justice. Rawls himself struggled to refine his position over the years. While the refinements may improve the theory, they do not improve on his first book's translation of the liberal core of the culture into a philosophical position ...
... Justice at 48–51 (on reflective equilibrium). 19 See ibid 138 (“To say that a certain conception of justice would be chosen in the original position is equivalent to saying that rational deliberation satisfying certain conditions and ...
... Rawls. In 1971, he claims that his work is “a part of a theory of rational decision” (A Theory of Justice at 16). Twenty years later, he disavows this claim, saying now that his effort PUTTING LIBERALISM IN ITS PLACE 17 □
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