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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.Description: 292 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0674019288 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 172 22
LOC classification:
  • JK468.E7 S36 2005
Contents:
Pt. I. American civic life -- 1. America's search for a public philosophy -- 2. Beyond individualism : democrats and community -- 3. The politics of easy virtue -- 4. Big ideas -- 5. The problem with civility -- 6. Impeachment--then and now -- 7. Robert F. Kennedy's promise -- Pt. II. Moral and political arguments -- 8. Against state lotterie s -- 9. Commercials in the classroom -- 10. Branding the public realm -- 11. Sports and civic identity -- 12. History for sale -- 13. The market for merit -- 14. Should we buy the right to pollute? -- 15. Honor and resentment -- 16. Arguing affirmative action -- 17. Should victims have a say in sentencing? -- 18. Clinton and Kant on lying -- 19. Is there a right to assisted suicide? -- 20. Embryo ethics : the moral logic of stem cell research -- 21. Moral argument and liberal toleration : abortion and homosexuality -- Pt. III. Liberalism, pluralism, and community -- 22. Morality and the liberal ideal -- 23. The procedural republic and the unencumbered self -- 24. Justice as membership -- 25. The peril of extinction -- 26. Dewey's liberalism and ours -- 27. Mastery and hubris in Judaism : what's wrong with playing god? -- 28. Political liberalism -- 29. Remembering Rawls.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-277) and index.

Pt. I. American civic life -- 1. America's search for a public philosophy -- 2. Beyond individualism : democrats and community -- 3. The politics of easy virtue -- 4. Big ideas -- 5. The problem with civility -- 6. Impeachment--then and now -- 7. Robert F. Kennedy's promise -- Pt. II. Moral and political arguments -- 8. Against state lotterie s -- 9. Commercials in the classroom -- 10. Branding the public realm -- 11. Sports and civic identity -- 12. History for sale -- 13. The market for merit -- 14. Should we buy the right to pollute? -- 15. Honor and resentment -- 16. Arguing affirmative action -- 17. Should victims have a say in sentencing? -- 18. Clinton and Kant on lying -- 19. Is there a right to assisted suicide? -- 20. Embryo ethics : the moral logic of stem cell research -- 21. Moral argument and liberal toleration : abortion and homosexuality -- Pt. III. Liberalism, pluralism, and community -- 22. Morality and the liberal ideal -- 23. The procedural republic and the unencumbered self -- 24. Justice as membership -- 25. The peril of extinction -- 26. Dewey's liberalism and ours -- 27. Mastery and hubris in Judaism : what's wrong with playing god? -- 28. Political liberalism -- 29. Remembering Rawls.

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