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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... welfare, the utilitarian treats society as a whole as if it were a single person; it conflates our many, diverse ... welfare cannot override them. As John Rawls writes in A Theory of Justice, “Each person possesses an inviolability ...
... welfare state , the extent of rights and entitlements , the proper degree of government regulation - take their shape from the arguments of an earlier day . These are not unimportant topics ; but they do not reach the two concerns that ...
... welfare state and a greater measure of social and economic equality . In the history of political theory , however , liberalism has a different , broader meaning . In this historical sense , liberalism describes a tradition of thought ...
... welfare programs is a form of coerced charity that violates people's freedom to choose what to do with their own money . Democrats sometimes argue that government should assure all citizens a decent level of income , housing , and ...
... welfare . The state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life , even for their own good , because doing so will reduce the sum of human happiness , at least in the long run . It is better that people choose for ...
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 |