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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... ends in themselves, worthy of respect.11 Contemporary liberals extend Kant's argument with the claim that ... end in himself or herself. In the view of modern-day Kantians, certain rights are so fundamental that even the general welfare ...
... ends. The claim for the priority of the right over the good, and the conception of the person that attends it, oppose Kantian liberalism not only to utilitarianism but also to any view that regards us as obligated to fulfill ends we ...
... ends.2 Since this liberalism asserts the priority of fair procedures over particular ends , the public life it informs might be called the procedural republic.3 In describing the prevailing political philosophy as a version of liberal ...
... ends finds prominent expression in our politics and law . Its province is not limited to those known as liberals rather than conservatives in American politics ; it can be found across the political spectrum . Republicans sometimes ...
... ends its 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 ...
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 |