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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... particular. Compromise is possible because the background values of the culture are not widely or deeply opposed. As a matter of law, we protect certain fundamental rights. Individuals and groups are free to live as they wish, as long ...
... particular community's values; there is no way to make cross-cultural comparisons of value. To condemn another's practices is simply to produce a kind of tautological affirmation of one's own values. Moral relativism, however, offers no ...
... particular seems firm ground from which theory can direct practice . 10 Multiculturalism would not pose a problem if the plurality of values could simply be aggregated - like adding another wing to a museum . The problem of cultural ...
... particular. It is, instead, a warning that nor- mative inquiry can no longer take the form of proscription, but must turn to self-exploration.13 CULTURAL STUDY AND LIBERALISM Cultural difference is such a prominent problem today because ...
... particular content they assume in modern American political culture. Part II investigates what the debate framed by these oppositions leaves out or fails to see. Most of all, liberalism fails to see the way in which citizens commit- ted ...
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