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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... conception of the person, its view of what it means to be a moral agent. Where utilitarians conflate our many desires into a single system of desire, Kantian liberals insist on the separateness of persons. Where the utilitarian self is ...
... conception of freedom , unlike the liberal concep- tion , requires a formative politics , a politics that cultivates ... conception of citizenship and freedom gradually crowded out the republican conception involves two intersecting ...
... conception , liberal political theory does not see political life as concerned with the highest human ends or with the moral excellence of its citizens . Rather than promote a particular conception of the good life , liberal political ...
... conception of the good , that does not presuppose the superiority of one way of life over others . Only a justifica- tion neutral among ends could preserve the liberal resolve not to favor any particular ends or to impose on its ...
... conception of the good and so fail to respect people's freedom to choose their own conceptions.13 Of course , proponents of the liberal ethic notoriously disagree about what rights are fundamental and what political arrangements the ...
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 |