| Description |
292 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index. |
| Contents |
I: American civic life -- America's search for a public philosophy -- Beyond individualism: Democrats and community -- Politics of easy virtue -- Big ideas -- Problem with civility -- Impeachment--then and now -- Robert F. Kennedy's promise -- II: Moral and political arguments -- Against state lotteries -- Commercials in the classroom -- Branding the public realm -- Sports and civic identity -- History for sale -- 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 -- III: Liberalism, pluralism, and community -- Morality and the liberal ideal -- Procedural republic and the unencumbered self -- Justice as membership -- Peril of extinction -- Dewey's liberalism and ours -- Mastery and Hubris in Judaism: what's wrong with playing God? -- Political liberalism -- Remembering Rawls -- Limits of communitarianism. |
| Subject |
Political ethics -- United States.
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Political ethics. |
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United States. |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
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United States -- Moral conditions.
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Moral conditions. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
2001-2009 |
| ISBN |
0674019288 alkaline paper |
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