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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... Virtue in the Early Republic 123 6 Free Labor versus Wage Labor 168 7 Community , Self - Government , and Progressive Reform 201 8 Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution 250 9 The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic 274 ...
... virtue , or moral excellence , of citizens . All associations aim at some good , Aristotle wrote , and the polis , or political association , aims at the highest , most comprehensive good : " any polis which is truly so called , and is ...
... virtues we display or what values we espouse . " That we have one conception of the good rather than another is not relevant ... virtue or moral desert , for the qualities that make people virtuous or morally deserving depend on factors ...
... virtue of agreements we make , be they tacit or explicit.20 Conceived as unencumbered selves , we must respect the dignity of all persons , but beyond this , we owe only what we agree to owe . Liberal justice requires that we respect ...
... the freely choosing , unencumbered selves that Kantian liberals imagine us to be , does it follow that government need not be neutral , that politics should cultivate the virtue of its. The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism . 17.
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 |