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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... sense , it is unavoidable in another . This is the sense in which philosophy inhabits the world from the start ; our practices and institutions are embodiments of theory . We could hardly describe our political life , much less engage ...
... sense of these indispensable aspects of our moral and political experience. Consider the limited scope of obligation on the liberal view. According to Rawls, obligations can arise in only one of two ways, as “natural duties” we owe to ...
... sense of our condition . The main topics of national debate - the proper scope of the welfare state , the extent of rights and entitlements , the proper degree of government regulation - take their shape from the arguments of an earlier ...
... sense , liberalism describes a tradition of thought that emphasizes toleration and respect for individual rights and that runs from John Locke , Immanuel Kant , and John Stuart Mill to John Rawls . The public philosophy of contemporary.
... sense of belonging , a concern for the whole , a moral bond with the community whose fate is at stake . To share in self - rule therefore requires that citizens possess , or come to acquire , certain qualities of character , or civic ...
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 |