TY - BOOK AU - Sandel,Michael J. TI - Public philosophy: essays on morality in politics SN - 067402365X AV - JK468.E7 S36 2006 U1 - 172 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, Mass., London PB - Harvard University Press KW - Political ethics KW - United States KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - Moral conditions KW - Politics and government KW - 2001- N1 - 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 ER -