摆正自由主义的位置

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• Will privileges the narrative of self-creation of a particular community. There is no universal will, no will in the abstract. On this view, the origins of the political community represent a perfect state of grace, in which there is a complete transparency of the individual will to the sovereign will. This revolutionary community has a kind of transtemporal existence: all individuals—present and future—are participants as members of the popular sovereign. For this reason, the actions of the founders can continue to bind future generations: all are part of a single We. The atemporality of Christ has moved from church to sovereign monarch to the popular sovereign. Such a nation cannot be conceived on the model of reason or interest. It is the product of a revolutionary act of will that has ... (查看原文)

  Lowlibrarian 2018-05-05 12:24:31

• The more we take the perspective of the will, the more we emphasize a normative perspective that places a revelatory act at the foundation of the community’s self-understanding. This is a politics that borrows from the religious linkage of will and revelation. Will and grace, I argued above, are linked as faculty and object. Just like reason and its object, the distinction of will and grace is never complete.We know the faculty in each case only in and through its object. In the apprehension of a mathematical principle, for example, we cannot distinguish the object of knowledge (an idea) from the faculty of knowing. Faculty and object provide two perspectives on a single experience of meaning. Similarly, grace is a function of will, and will a function of grace. The tendency of early Chris... (查看原文)

  Lowlibrarian 2018-05-05 12:41:55