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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... Human Sciences in Vienna , and at sessions of the American Political Science Association , the Association of American Law Schools , the Society for Ethical and Legal Philosophy , and the Harvard University Law School Faculty Workshop ...
... human beings the capacity to act with an autonomous will. Contemporary liberals rely on the similar notion of a self given prior to and independent of its purposes and ends. The claim for the priority of the right over the good, and the ...
... human beings as such or as voluntary obligations we incur by consent. The natural duties are those we owe persons qua persons—to do justice, to avoid cruelty, and so on. All other obligations, the ones we owe to particular others, are ...
... human good , then in what does their moral basis consist ? It is sometimes thought that liberal principles can be justified by a simple version of moral relativism . Government should not " legislate morality , " because all morality is ...
... human goods are in principle commensura- ble . Others have objected that by reducing all values to preferences and desires , utilitarians are unable to admit qualitative distinctions of worth , unable to distinguish noble desires from ...
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 |