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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... 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. The Constitution of the ...
... tradition of thought , and most of our debates proceed within its terms . The idea that freedom consists in our capacity to choose our ends finds prominent expression in our politics and law . Its province is not limited to those known ...
... tradition coexisted with slavery , with the exclusion of women from the public realm , with property qualifications for voting , with nativist hostil- ity to immigrants ; indeed it sometimes provided the terms within which these ...
... traditions . Encumbered identities such as these are at odds with the liberal concep- tion of the person as free and ... tradition and inherited status , unbound by moral ties antecedent to choice , the liberal self is installed as ...
... traditional societies , people sought to shape political life in the image of their own moral and religious ideals . But modern democratic societies are marked by a plurality of moral and religious ideals . Moreover , this pluralism is ...
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 |