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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... civil liberties combined with a strict regime of private property rights. Whether egalitarian or libertarian, Kantian liberalism begins with the claim that we are separate, individual persons, each with our own aims, interests, and ...
... civil liberties together with certain social and economic rights - rights to welfare , education , health care , and so on . They argue that respecting the capacity of persons to pursue their own ends requires government to assure the ...
... Civil War . Lee , then an officer in the Union army , opposed secession , in fact regarded it as trea- son . And yet when war loomed , Lee concluded that his obligation to Vir- ginia outweighed his obligation to the Union and also his ...
... civil and political rights , and so demand of their fellow citizens a high measure of mutual engagement . They insist on the " plurality and distinctness " of individuals but also require that we " share one another's fate " and regard ...
... civil war . The only hope of holding the country together , he argued , was to agree to disagree , to bracket the moral controversy over slavery and respect " the right of each state and each territory to decide these questions for ...
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 |