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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... choice. Such obligations are difficult to account for if we understand ourselves as free and independent selves, unbound by moral ties we have not chosen. Unless we think of ourselves as encumbered selves, already claimed by certain ...
... choice in other domains . Although the two sides disagree about how government should act to respect individual choice , both assume that freedom consists in the capacity of persons to choose their values and ends . So familiar is this ...
... choice , the liberal self is installed as sovereign , cast as the author of the only obligations that constrain . More than the simple sum of circumstance , we become capable of the dignity that consists in being persons of our " own ...
... for reasons unrelated to a choice . Such obligations are difficult to account for if we understand ourselves as free and independent selves , unbound by moral ties we have. The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism . 13.
... choice . To the extent that we are , the meaning of our membership resists redescription in contractarian terms . It is sometimes argued , in defense of the liberal view , that loyalties and allegiances not grounded in consent , however ...
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 |