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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... whose fate is at stake . To share in self - rule therefore requires that citizens possess , or come to acquire , certain qualities of character , or civic virtues . But The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism · • 5.
... character self - government requires . Both the liberal and republican conceptions of freedom have been present throughout our political experience , but in shifting measure and relative importance . Broadly speaking , republicanism ...
... character their deliberation reflects . The quality at stake is the disposition to see and bear one's life circumstance as a reflectively situated being― claimed by the history that implicates me in a particular life , but self - con ...
... character that equip citizens to share in self - rule . In the chapters that follow , I try to show that the liberalism of the procedural republic provides the public philosophy by which we live . Despite its philosophical failings , it ...
... character necessary to the common good of self - government . Insofar as certain dispositions , attachments , and commitments are essential to the realiza- tion of self - government , republican politics regards moral character as a ...
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 |