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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... Neutral State 3 Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech 4 Privacy Rights and Family Law Part II The Political Economy of Citizenship ix 3 25 55 91 5 Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic 123 6 Free Labor versus Wage Labor 168 7 ...
... neutral framework. For Kantian liberals, it is precisely because we are freely choosing, independent selves that we need a neutral framework, a framework of rights that refuses to choose among competing values and ends. For the liberal ...
... neutral framework), not that we advance their good. Whether we must concern ourselves with other people's good depends on whether, and with whom, and on what terms, we have agreed to do so. One striking consequence of this view is that ...
... 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 . Instead , it should provide a framework ...
... 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 citizens the qualities of character self ...
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 |