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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... 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 Community , Self ...
... religion and wants it banned, the balance of preferences will favor suppression, not toleration. Utilitarians sometimes defend individual rights on the grounds that respecting them now will serve utility in the long run. But this ...
... religious duties, and other moral ties that may for reasons unrelated to a choice. Such obligations are difficult to account for if we understand ourselves as free and independent selves, unbound by moral ties we have not chosen. Unless ...
... 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 of rights that respects ...
... religious liberty , free speech , and privacy rights . Another traces the decline of the civic strand of American political discourse from Thomas Jefferson's day to the present . These stories , taken together , bring to clarity the ...
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 |