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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... citizen is therefore without any special obligations to his or her fellow citizens, apart from the universal, natural duty not to commit injustice. The liberal attempt to construe all obligation in terms of duties universally owed or ...
... citizens a decent level of income , housing , and health , on the grounds that those who are crushed by economic necessity are not truly free to exercise choice in other domains . Although the two sides disagree about how government ...
... citizens espouse . The republican conception of freedom , unlike the liberal concep- tion , requires a formative politics , a politics that cultivates in citizens the qualities of character self - government requires . Both the liberal ...
... citizens the expansive self - understandings that civic engagement requires ? If the pub- lic philosophy of our day leaves little room for civic considerations , it may help to recall how earlier generations of Americans debated such ...
... citizens a preferred way of life , even for their own good , because doing so will reduce the sum of human happiness , at least in the long run . It is better that people choose for themselves , even if , on occasion , they get it wrong ...
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 |