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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... matter of personal preference not open to argument or rational debate . " Who is to say what is literature and what is filth ? That is a value judgment , and whose values should decide ? " Relativism usually appears less as a claim than ...
... matters above all , what is most essential to our personhood , is not the ends we choose but our capacity to choose them . " It is not our aims that primarily reveal our nature , " but rather the framework of rights we would agree to if ...
... matter , from the standpoint of liberal justice , what virtues we display or what values we espouse . " That we have one conception of the good rather than another is not relevant from a moral standpoint . In acquiring it we are ...
... matters of sentiment , not of morality , and so do not suggest an obligation unavailable to unencumbered selves . But it is difficult to make sense of certain familiar moral and political dilemmas without acknow- ledging obligations of ...
... matter of 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 ...
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 |