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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... important to distinguish two different meanings of liberalism . In the common parlance of American politics , liberalism is the opposite of conservatism ; it is the outlook of those who favor a more generous welfare state and a greater ...
... importance . Broadly speaking , republicanism predominated ear- lier in American history , liberalism later . In recent decades , the civic or formative aspect of our politics has largely given way to the liberalism that conceives ...
... importance of certain material prerequisites for the meaningful exercise of 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 ...
... important fact about modern democratic life . In traditional societies , people sought to shape political life in the image of their own moral and religious ideals . But modern democratic societies are marked by a plurality of moral and ...
... importance of political values such as toleration , social cooperation , and mutual respect , it is not always reasonable to set aside competing values that may arise from substantive moral and relig- ious doctrines . At least where ...
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 |