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Public philosophy : essays on morality in politics / Michael J. Sandel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006Description: 292 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 067402365X
  • 9780674023659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 172 22
LOC classification:
  • JK468.E7 S36 2006
Contents:
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 our -- Mastery and hubris in Judaism : What's wrong with playing God? -- Political liberalism -- Remembering Rawls -- The limits of communitarianism.
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Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references 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 our -- Mastery and hubris in Judaism : What's wrong with playing God? -- Political liberalism -- Remembering Rawls -- The limits of communitarianism.

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