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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... self - image consists in the case it implies for equal respect . The idea that there is more to a person than the roles he plays or the customs she keeps or the faith he The Constitution of the Procedural Republic · 12.
... equal right to live the lives they choose . Critique of Kantian Liberalism Kantian liberals thus avoid affirming a conception of the good by affirming instead the priority of the right , which depends in turn on a picture of the self ...
... equal liberties . Since “ necessitous men are not free men , ” and since in any case the distribution of assets and endowments that make for success is " arbitrary from a moral point of view , " egalitarian liberals would tax the rich ...
... equal respect for persons , the question remains why these persons , the ones who happen to live in my country , have a claim on my concern that others do not . Tying the mutual responsibilities of citizenship to the idea of respect for ...
... equal citizenship for women are sufficient grounds for concluding that women should be free to choose for themselves whether to have an abortion ; government should not take sides on the moral and religious controversy over when human ...
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 |