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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... questions as the meaning of justice and the nature of the good life , what we cannot escape is that we live some answer to these questions - we live some theory - all the time . In this book I explore the theory we live now , in ...
... questions , and also for their permission to incorporate the lectures into this larger project . I also benefited from opportunities to try out portions of this book on faculty and students at Brown University , the University of ...
... may prompt us to pose questions we have forgotten how to ask : What economic arrangements are hospitable to self - govern- ment ? How might our political discourse engage rather than The Constitution of the Procedural Republic • 6.
... question of the good life is distinctive to modern political thought . Ancient political theory held that the purpose of politics was to cultivate the virtue , or moral excellence , of citizens . All associations aim at some good ...
... question . If liberal ideals cannot be defended in the name of the highest human good , then in what does their ... question : " Who is to judge ? " But the same question can be asked of the values that liberals defend . Toleration and ...
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 |