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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... ideas independently conceived ; they are themselves embodiments of ideas . For all we may resist such ultimate questions as the meaning of justice and the nature of the good life , what we cannot escape is that we live some answer to ...
... idea by attributing to 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 ...
... idea is that government should be neutral toward the moral and religious views its citizens espouse . Since people disagree about the best way to live , government should not affirm in law any particular vision of the good life ...
... idea that liberty depends on sharing in self - government . This idea is not by itself inconsistent with liberal freedom . Participating in politics can be one among the ways in which people choose to pursue their ends . According to ...
... idea that government should be neutral on the question of the good life is distinctive to modern political thought . Ancient political theory held that the purpose of politics was to cultivate the virtue , or moral excellence , of ...
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 |