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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... problem of cultural pluralism. Lacking a conviction in the absolute truth of our own beliefs and practices, we are uncertain how to respond to those who live by different norms. We are all too aware that such differences exist, as we ...
... problems of cultural pluralism reflect a similar conceptual aporia between universalism and tolerance as competing first principles. We can articulate a set of universal values and supporting norms, against which cultural practices and ...
... problem if the plurality of values could simply be aggregated - like adding another wing to a museum . The problem of cultural difference is not like that of difference among cuisines , in which each culture values some distinct set of ...
... problem from which we started: the problem of cultural pluralism.12 Normative systems are plural be- cause there is no agreement about the substantive or procedural bases upon which they are constructed. Individual moral autonomy may be ...
... problem to be solved, as if we could finally articulate the right set of universal values or the appropriate scope of the particular. It is, instead, a warning that nor- mative inquiry can no longer take the form of proscription, but ...
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