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To: one_less who wrote (14778)	11/13/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

The jurisprudence of our justice system is a fine thing, maybe ideal in fact; and has a definite, deliberate and strong link to moral order. Brees, are we talking English common law here, or perhaps "natural law"? The former is pretty well established, the latter, I don't know much about, except a bit of guilt by association with a certain SC Justice. Don't know much philosophy, as the old song went, but on the sometimes popular "original intent" front, Enlightenment philosophy was supposed to be a big influence, right? A quick web search to check that I at least got the Enlightenment term right turned up this link, which may be of interest to the general discussion: civsoc.com WELCOME TO PHILOSOPHY AND CIVIL SOCIETY This site is devoted to the philosophical examination of the nature of civil society and civic culture in general. More specifically, it addresses the contemporary crisis of liberal democratic civic culture in the postmodern period. The thesis developed here was first presented in my book, The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (SUNY Press, 1994). ISSUE ONE: What comes after postmodernism? The standpoint known as "postmodernism" (or, better, hypermodernism) is a dead-end. Yet a return to Enlightenment rationalism is impossible. Is there a path that will take us beyond this impasse? ISSUE TWO: Western culture in the clash of civilizations. The West today is losing irretrievably its former global hegemony and is increasingly challenged economically and culturally by East Asian and Islamic civilizations. The universalism of Enlightenment culture long blinded the West to the particularism of its own liberal democratic values. Can these values be reformulated in such a way as to strengthen particularistic cultural identity of the West in the face of the challenges that non-Western civilizations are bound to pose in the future? ISSUE THREE: The postmodern reconstruction of personal life. The modernist liberal moral ideals of authenticity and autonomy have shaped personal life in Europe and America for almost three hundred years. These moral ideals were grounded in and supported by Enlightenment civic culture and make little sense apart from it. What new ideals of personal life will replace the ideals of authenticity and autonomy in post-Enlightenment Western culture? Beats me, maybe you'd care to comment? Cheers, Dan.