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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... means to the happiness of others, not as ends in themselves, worthy of respect.11 Contemporary liberals extend Kant's argument with the claim that utilitarianism fails to take seriously the distinction between persons. In seeking above ...
... means to be a moral agent. Where utilitarians conflate our many desires into a single system of desire, Kantian liberals insist on the separateness of persons. Where the utilitarian self is simply defined as the sum of its desires, the ...
... mean the political theory implicit in our practice , the assumptions about citizenship and freedom that inform our public life . The inability of contemporary American politics to speak convincingly about self - government and community ...
... means deliberating with fellow citizens about the common good and helping to shape the destiny of the political community . But to deliberate well about the common good requires more than the capacity to choose one's ends and to respect ...
... means that republi- can politics cannot be neutral toward the values and ends its citizens espouse . The republican conception of freedom , unlike the liberal concep- tion , requires a formative politics , a politics that cultivates in ...
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 |