Liberalism, Republicanism And The Spirit Of American Politics: A Critique Of Sandel
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Memorial University of Newfoundland * Department of Philosophy
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Michael Sandel sees Rawls' liberal theory of justice as abstractly uncomprehensive of another, republican view of the essential relation of political life to moral culture. But, as reference to the debates of the Civil War and the New Deal show, his own jeremiadic account of American history equally misrepresents the dialectical interplay of liberal and republican moments that is essential in American freedom.