Public philosophy : essays on morality in politics /
Michael J. Sandel.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
- 292 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index.
America's search for a public philosophy -- Beyond individualism: Democrats and community -- The politics of easy virtue -- Big ideas -- The problem with civility -- Impeachment--then and now -- Robert F. Kennedy's promise -- Against state lotteries -- Commercials in the classroom -- Branding the public realm -- Sports and civic identity -- History for sale -- The market for merit -- Should we buy the right to pollute? -- Honor and resentment -- Arguing affirmative action -- Should victims have a say in sentencing? -- Clinton and Kant on lying -- Is there a right to assisted suicide? -- Embryo ethics: the moral logic of stem cell research -- Moral argument and liberal toleration: abortion and homosexuality -- Morality and the liberal ideal -- The procedural republic and the unencumbered self -- Justice as membership -- The peril of extinction -- Dewey's liberalism and ours -- Mastery and Hubris in Judaism: what's wrong with playing God? -- Political liberalism -- Remembering Rawls -- The limits of communitarianism. I: American civic life -- II: Moral and political arguments -- III: Liberalism, pluralism, and community --
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Political ethics--United States. Political science--Philosophy. Political ethics--United States. Political science--Philosophy.
United States--Moral conditions. United States--Politics and government--2001- United States--Moral conditions. United States--Politics and government--2001-