Public Philosophy Essays on Morality in Politics

includes index and biblioraphy

1. American Civic Life America`s Search for a Public Philosophy.......9 Beyond individualism : Democrats and Community...........35 The politics of Easy Virtue .......46 Big Ideas ...........50 The PRoblem with Civility ............54 Impeachment- Then and Now ..........59 Robert F. Kennedy`s Promise .........63 2. Moral and Political Arguments Against state lotteries .......69 Commercials in the Classroom........73 Branding the public realm .......77 Sports and civic identity......81 History for Sale .............85 The market for Merit ......89 Should we buy the right to pollute.........93 Honor and resentment ...........97 Arguing affirmative action ..........101 Should Victims have a say in Sentencing ....105 Clinton and kant on lying ............109 Is there a right to assisted suicide..........113 Embryo ethics: The moral logic of Stem cell research .................117 Moral argument and liberal toleration : Abortion and Homosexuality ..................122 3. Liberalism, Pluralism, and Community Morality and the liberal ideal .........147 The procedural republic and the unencumbered self.........156 Justice as membership...........174 The peril of Extinction ........179 Dewey`s Liberalism and Ours..........183 Mastery and hubris in judaism ....196 Political Liberalism .................211 Remembering rawls ........248 The limits of Communitarianism ...................252