Word: sandel
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...panel discussion yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel discussed his new book Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy before an audience of about 150 people...
After offering a brief synopsis of his book, Sandel initiated a discussion with the other panel members...
...opening statement, Sandel spoke of his perception that there is a defect in the content of American politics...
They say opposites attract, but no one expected the unlikely love affair between Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and Visiting Lecturer George F. Will which has captivated students in Government 1091. Lovers and students alike should take note: this is not merely the reasonable result of bringing together two famous thinkers whose philosophies have evolved past their now outmoded political reputations...
...Will and Sandel, perhaps America's foremost conservative and liberal philosophers, stand hand-in-hand in the belief that America must head into a time of a new republicanism, in which the government will abandon its value-neutral pretenses and actively seek to mold citizens to embody certain virtues so that they will be better equipped to share in self-government. Their contention is that confining politics solely to the economic distribution debate between libertarians and egalitarians is no longer appropriate. The new "statescraft as soulcraft" (to use Will's term) may well be inevitable...