Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public PhilosophyThe defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has lost its civic voice, leaving both liberals and conservatives unable to inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that self-government requires. |
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... argued that empirical principles such as utility were unfit to serve as a basis for morality. A wholly instrumental ... argument with the claim that utilitarianism fails to take seriously the distinction between persons. In seeking above ...
... argument or rational debate . " Who is to say what is literature and what is filth ? That is a value judgment , and ... arguing that all values are merely subjective . The relativist defense of liberalism is no defense at all ...
... argued , in defense of the liberal view , that loyalties and allegiances not grounded in consent , however psychologically compel- ling , are matters of sentiment , not of morality , and so do not suggest an obligation unavailable to ...
... argue against a right to abortion . It is simply to show that the case for abortion rights cannot be neutral with ... argued , national policy should be neutral on that question . The doctrine of popular sovereignty he defended did ...
... argue that government should not take a stand one way or another on the morality of abortion , but let each woman decide the question for herself , so Douglas argued that national policy should not take a stand one way or the other on ...
Contents
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Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech | 55 |
Privacy Rights and Family Law | 91 |
Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic | 123 |
Free Labor versus Wage Labor | 168 |
Community SelfGovernment and Progressive Reform | 201 |
Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution | 250 |
The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic | 274 |
Other editions - View all
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel Limited preview - 1998 |
Liberalism and Its Critics: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1998 |
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1996 |