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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... interests.” 12 So Kantian liberals need an account of rights that does not depend on utilitarian considerations. More than this, they need an account that does not depend on any particular conception of the good, that does.
... particular others, are founded in consent and arise only in virtue of agreements we make, be they tacit or explicit. 20 Conceived as unencumbered selves, we must respect the dignity of all persons, but beyond this, we owe only what we ...
... particular vision of the good life . Instead , it should provide a framework of rights that respects persons as free and independent selves , capable of choosing their own values and ends.2 Since this liberalism asserts the priority of ...
... human ends or with the moral excellence of its citizens . Rather than promote a particular conception of the good life , liberal political theory insists on toleration The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism · 7.
... particular conception of the good , that does not presuppose the superiority of one way of life over others . Only a justifica- tion neutral among ends could preserve the liberal resolve not to favor any particular ends or to impose on ...
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 |
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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 |