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In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.
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INDEX
Abolitionist movement, 4, 227, 229, 242–243
Abortion, 1–2, 4, 9, 38, 42, 47–48, 68, 114, 147, 275n29; and liberal toleration, 122–125, 130–131, 133–135, 141, 144; and political liberalism, 225–226, 228, 230, 241, 243, 245
Abraham, 197, 204
Adam, 197, 209
Addams, Jane, 13–14, 31, 184, 250
Addiction, 71–72
Advertising, 233; in schools, 67, 73–76; for lotteries, 70–71; branding for government agencies, 77–80
Affirmative action, 4, 68, 99, 101–104, 232
African Americans, 41, 63, 99, 102, 230. See also Civil rights movement
Agrarian way of life, 11–12, 24
Akiva ben Joseph, 196, 202
Alexander, Lamar, 56
Allegiance. See Loyalty
Anthropology, religious, 199–201, 203–206
Arendt, Hannah, 155, 180
Aristotle, 24, 34, 152, 154, 158, 196, 198, 214, 254
Army, U.S., 38
Assisted suicide, 4, 68, 113–116
Association, freedom of, 249
Athens, ancient, 154
Autonomy, 13, 32, 34, 114–116, 124–125, 130–131, 133–134, 136–137, 141–142, 160–161
Baltimore Colts, 83
Baseball, 73, 81, 84
Basketball, 81
Beatles, 87–88
Beer, Samuel, 170
Bennett, William, 47, 56–57
Bentham, Jeremy, 211
Bible, 2, 110, 112, 196–197
Bioengineering, 200–205, 207–208, 210
Bioethics, 68, 117–121
Blackmun, Harry A., 132, 137–138, 144
Blair, Tony, 77–78
Blumenauer,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- I AMERICAN CIVIC LIFE
- II MORAL AND POLITICAL ARGUMENTS
- III LIBERALISM, PLURALISM, AND COMMUNITY
- Notes
- Credits
- Index