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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... republican theory is the idea that liberty depends on sharing in self - government . This idea is not by itself inconsistent with liberal freedom . Participating in politics can be one among the ways in which people choose to pursue ...
... republican conception of freedom , unlike the liberal concep- tion , requires a formative politics , a politics that cultivates in citizens the qualities of character self - government requires . Both the liberal and republican ...
... republican theory interprets rights in the light of a particular conception of the good society - the self - governing republic . In contrast to the liberal claim that the right is prior to the good , republican- ism thus affirms a ...
... republican view , liberty is understood as a consequence of self - government . I am free insofar as I am a member of a political community that controls its own fate , and a participant in the decisions that govern its affairs . To put ...
... republican emphasis on self - government leaves individual rights vulnerable to the tyranny of the majority . Moreover , the republican claim that freedom depends on civic virtue gives the state a stake in the character of its citizens ...
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 |