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	Michael Sandel
		More specifically, Sandel discusses the ebb and flow of "civic republicanism," a concern for establishing the prerequisites of citizenship, and "New Deal liberalism," which espouses a neutral government and the proliferation of rights.
		Sandel traces the height of civic republicanism, during the Progressive era, and, coupled with the emphasis shift from production to consumption, its fall at the hands of New Deal liberalism in the 30's and 40's.
		Sandel argues that the forgotten political strand of civic republicanism, a theory that recognizes the interdependence of citizens in the framework of society and the necessity of civic association a la de Tocqueville, would go a long way in revitalizing both our communities and our faith in government.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /sandel.html (301 words)

	Online NewsHour: Gergen Dialogue with Michael Sandel, May 10, 1996
		MICHAEL SANDEL: Well, I think we've come to a public philosophy that says government should be neutral with respect to controversial moral and religious conceptions; government shouldn't try to cultivate civic virtue or form the character of its citizens.
		MICHAEL SANDEL: Well, throughout the American tradition, one important strand of public philosophy that you referred to, the civic strand, or the small “r” republican strand, says that to be a citizen is more than just voting every four years, it's more than just registering your self interest in politics.
		MICHAEL SANDEL: I think they are on the right track, and they speak about the culture, the popular culture, the educational system, the erosion of values.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/sandel.html (868 words)

	Michael Sandel's Case for Statism - Mises Institute
		Michael Sandel attained fame, and perhaps fortune as well, early in his academic career.
		Sandel maintains that Rawls does so because he believes in the "unencumbered self." People, Rawls thinks, are autonomous: they can detach themselves from whatever view of the good they hold.
		Sandel's recipe is simple: we revile and restrict the free market as much as possible.
	www.mises.org /story/1998 (2543 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Sandel defends human cloning for research
		Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government and a member of President Bush's Council on Biomedical Ethics, gave a talk Monday (Nov. 18) on "The Ethics of Human Cloning." The lecture was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and the Professions.
		Sandel made the point that if one looks at the question from the point of view of ends, creating embryos for research is actually more worthwhile than fertility treatments, which result in the destruction of unused embryos.
		Sandel said that while using cloning techniques to create designer babies would be the ultimate hubris, a practice that would "promote the notion that a child is not a gift but a possession," the use of cloning for research and therapeutic purposes is entirely justified.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/11.21/13-cloning.html (944 words)

	Evaluating Michael Sandel's Critique of the Foundations of Deontological Liberalism
		Sandel argues that the conception of the self which Rawls employs in building the theory of justice is flawed and incapable of supporting Rawls's conclusions.
		Sandel writes that Rawls engineers the OP in such a way that all people who can potentially enter the OP are collapsed into a single person faced with such narrow restrictions that only one rational choice as to the foundations of justice is possible.
		Sandel argues that the worry raised by Robert Nozick that the principles of justice use some people as means toward others' ends forces Rawls to accept what Sandel calls a ``radically disembodied subject.'' The radically disembodied subject exists prior to and is not constituted by its ends.
	ambient.2y.net /jon/philo/sandel_rawls_critique_1.html (2167 words)

	Michael Sandel Information
		Sandel subscribes to the theory of communitarianism (although he is uncomfortable with the label), and in this vein he is perhaps best known for his critique of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice.
		Sandel's view is that we are by nature encumbered to an extent that makes it impossible even in the hypothetical to have such a veil.
		Sandel also teaches "Ethics and Biotechnology," a seminar considering the ethical implications of a variety of biotechnological procedures and possibilities.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Michael_Sandel (457 words)

	Justice: A Journey in Moral Reasoning, Michael J. Sandel
		Hundreds of students pack Harvard's Sanders Theater for Michael Sandel's "Justice" course—an introduction to moral and political philosophy.
		They come to hear Sandel lecture about great philosophers of the past—from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill—but also to debate contemporary issues that raise philosophical questions—about individual rights and the claims of community, equality and inequality, morality and law.
		Despite the size of the course, Sandel engages students in lively discussion on topics including affirmative action, income distribution, and same-sex marriage, showing that even the most hotly contested issues of the day can be the subject of reasoned moral argument.
	athome.harvard.edu /programs/jmr (143 words)

	Chautauqua 2002 Lecture Platform > Michael Sandel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sandel has also been a Scholar-in-Residence, afternoon seasonal speaker, Chautauqua-at-Smithsonian lecturer in the off-season and is an advisor to the Chautauqua Applied Ethics Programming.
		Michael Sandel is Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1980.
		Sandel is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brandeis University, the Board of Syndics of Harvard University Press, the Rhodes Scholarship Committee of Selection, the National Constitution Center Advisory Panel, the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jewish Philosophy (Jerusalem), and the Council on Foreign Relations.
	www.chautauqua-inst.org /Lectures/sandel.html (457 words)

	Harvard University Press: Author Interviews
		National Public Radio / WAMU Washington, DC / "Kogo Nnamdi Show" / November 28, 2005
		National Public Radio/ KQED San Francisco / "Forum with Michael Krasny" / January 30, 2006
		National Public Radio / "Morning Edition" / April 26, 2006
	www.hup.harvard.edu /journalists/broadcast_media.html (1018 words)

	Masterclasses l Masterclass Sandel
		Voor een uitverkochte zaal betrok Michael Sandel de studenten bij een ethische discussie.
		Michael J. Sandel (1953) is ‘Professor of Government’ en een ware superster aan Harvard University.
		Sandel maakte jaren lang deel uit van een invloedrijke commissie die de Amerikaanse president adviseert inzake ethiek en biotechnologie.
	www.nexus-instituut.nl /pages.php/MasterclassSandel.html (357 words)

	The Chautauqua Institution > The Chautauquan Daily
		The triumphalist or integrationist vision, Sandel said, was seen not as hope for a new brotherhood, but as a stand-in for American power in the world.
		Sandel gave examples of pharmaceutical companies having cures for sleeping sickness and for river blindness, but the people who needed it in Africa couldn't afford it.
		Sandel proposed two possibilities: humility, and a vision that goes back to Adam Smith and the link between economic and moral sentiments.
	www.ciweb.org /daily_sandel.html (2343 words)

	Sandel Reactions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sandel calls for a return to the old form of Republican politics that is based on the idea of self government, and the fact that everyone is really interested in what guides their lives.
		Sandel argues that the republican ideal of politics (striving toward a state of self-government by the people) is unrealistic and undesirable in the society that we live in today.
		Sandel quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau to further explain: “if each citizen is nothing and can do nothing except in concert with all othersone can say that the legislation has achieved the highest possible point of perfection.” Yet perfection yields risks and Sandel points them out.
	webpub.alleg.edu /employee/m/mmaniate/586/sandel.html (4633 words)

	Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy - PowerBookSearch!
		Sandel is strong on tracking the history of this value-neutralization of government; he is less successful in identifying the particulars of a practical yet value-laden ethic that can ``repair the civic life on which democracy depends'' while not trampling on anyone's liberties--one of the thorny dilemmas of current reformist politics.
		Sandel (government, Harvard U.) adds his views to the growing recognition that beneath American affluence and social justice lies a suspicion of government, a lack of control of our lives, and the unraveling of the moral fabric.
		Sandel is strong on tracking the history of this value-neutralization of government; he is less successful in identifying the particulars of a practical yet value-laden ethic that can "repair the civic life on which democracy depends" while not trampling on anyone's liberties—one of the thorny dilemmas of current reformist politics.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0674197453.html (1238 words)

	The President's Council on Bioethics: Michael J. Sandel, Ph.D.
		Michael J. Sandel, D.Phil., Professor of Government, Harvard University.
		Professor Sandel, who was a Rhodes Scholar, teaches contemporary political philosophy and the history of political thought.
		Sandel's books include Democracy's Discontent: America In Search of a Public Philosophy (1996) and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982).
	www.bioethics.gov /about/sandel.html (101 words)

	Amazon.com: Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy: Books: Michael J. Sandel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sandel gives us one of the most powerful works of public philosophy to appear in recent years [and] weaves a seamless web between the American present and the American past, a brilliant diagnosis.
		So says Michael Sandel in a wonderful new book, Democracy's Discontent Sandel's book will help produce what he desires-a quickened sense of the moral consequences of political practices and economic arrangements Sandel is right to regret the missing moral dimension of public discourse.
		Sandel has not, in any convincing way, shown that the communitarian ethic will enchant a new political system nor answer all the cries of America's discontent.
	www.amazon.com /Democracys-Discontent-America-Search-Philosophy/dp/0674197453 (1359 words)

	Mises Economics Blog: Comment on Michael Sandel's Case for Statism
		Sandel is a fascist, these two aspects of his thought are certainly also important elements of fascist doctrine, especially the devotion to government defined and imposed "higher" values.
		Sandel does not explain how human beings, who are unable to figure out how to equitably benefit from contributing their talents within an unbiased, open and free market, are capable of devoting themselves to forming a "higher, more morally sound social order"?
		Therefore it is not unusual to have academics, such as this sandel non-entity, write nonsense promoting big mother government, socialism, totalitarianism, violence against the individual, jealousy and initiations of force.
	blog.mises.org /mt/comments?entry_id=4572 (614 words)

	Michael Sandel’s Contribution to the Burgeoning Bioconservative Canon
		Michael Sandel’s Contribution to the Burgeoning Bioconservative Canon
		Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness.” This matters because, so far it isn’t the least bit clear what is clarified by going beyond questions of “safety and fairness” in these matters.
		Presumably, we who concentrate our attention in these matters on questions of “safety and fairness” are devoting inadequate attention to whatever deity Sandel personally worships and to whom he attributes the worthy things scientists and doctors and good citizens do.
	ieet.org /index.php/IEET/more/carrico20070221 (1518 words)

	Michael Sandel (MHT-22)
		Michael Sandel, author of Democracy's Discontent, fears that society is losing control of the forces which govern citizens' lives and that from family to neighborhood to nation the moral fabric of community is unraveling.
		He discusses new ideas about liberty and democracy that "spawn unencumbered selves with no sense of moral responsibility, duty, or attachment." This carefree sensibility, he believes, has been encouraged by a "procedural republic" which interprets democracy to be merely a morally neutral procedure to adjudicate differences.
		Sandel believes this conception of freedom cannot sustain a vital democratic life.
	www.marshillaudio.org /resources/segment_detail.asp?ID=453054273&TABLE=segments (168 words)

	Democracy's Discontent
		So says Michael Sandel in a wonderful new book, Democracy's Discontent...Sandel's book will help produce what he desires—a quickened sense of the moral consequences of political practices and economic arrangements...Sandel is right to regret the missing moral dimension of public discourse.
		Sandel suggests that we won't heal our fractured body politic unless we revive an American civic tradition that understands freedom not only as liberty from coercion but also as the freedom to govern ourselves together.
		Michael J. Sandel [1953–] is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980.
	www.ou.edu /cas/psc/booksandel2.htm (1922 words)

	Oxford Scholarship Online: Debating Democracy's Discontent
		Abstract: In Democracy’s Discontent, Michael Sandel contrasts the civic republican approach to American politics with that of liberal neutrality and shows how the two views have played out over the course of US history.
		Sandel argues that liberal neutrality is overwhelmingly dominant today, and he urges a return to a more Aristotelian, republican politics; both positions are controverted here.
		Sandel is not completely clear as to just what America’s lost republican ideals are and precisely what policies his republicanism would justify that liberalism cannot; he fails to acknowledge what both he and his critics should reject as the dark sides of republicanism: right-wing extremism and the tendency toward aristocracy.
	www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/politicalscience/0198294964/toc.html (658 words)

	Harvard Political Review - The Moral Philosopher
		He was impressed and convinced by Sandel’s calling to Democrats to discuss morality and community in the political debate.
		Sandel talked to the Harvard Political Review on political polarization, re-engaging America’s moral spirit, and the lack of civility in our political debate.
		Michael Sandel: Of the Democrats on the national scene, Barack Obama may well be the one with the greatest potential to articulate a compelling political vision.
	hprsite.squarespace.com /the-moral-philosopher-032006 (1173 words)

	AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - Michael Sandel und Liberalism Justice
		(249 pages) Sandel traces the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows.Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls.
		These are the questions Michael Sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalism.A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends.
		Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls.
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/Michael+Sandel+/tn/+Liberalism+Justice (1203 words)

	Michael J. Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Event
		Michael Sandel is one of America’s foremost political and moral thinkers.
		In his new book, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection through genetic “enhancement” represents a bid for mastery and domination that could profoundly undermine values of equality, democracy and community.
		This is Michael Sandel's first visit to the Bay Area to discuss these topics.
	www.genetics-and-society.org /events/200704_sandelevent.html (152 words)

	Special Projects: Commonwealth Humanities Lecture 2004
		The first annual Commonwealth Humanities Lecture was delivered on June 10, 2004 by Michael J. Sandel, Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University.
		Sandel's publications include Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1996) Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 1997) and Liberalism and Its Critics (ed., Basil Blackwell, 1984).
		"We are so pleased to be able to inaugurate the Commonwealth Humanities Lecture with a scholar of the caliber of Michael Sandel," said David Tebaldi, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
	www.mfh.org /specialprojects/chl/chl2004.html (285 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Michael Sandel named first Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor
		We had the opportunity to attend several classes with her - including one of Professor Sandel's - and to experience firsthand the marvelous talents of the Harvard faculty.
		We are delighted to participate in an initiative to endow professorships that will benefit undergraduates by providing greater access to faculty.
		Sandel has taught political philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1980.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/10.24/09-bass.html (663 words)

	Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Can Self-Government Survive? Michael Sandel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Michael Sandel has been teaching the largest undergraduate class at Harvard.
		Sandel is concerned with the civic challenge of our times.
		In this program with Bill Moyers, Sandel discusses his views on what is needed for self-government to survive under modern conditions.
	www.films.com /id/7658/Can_Self-Government_Survive_Michael_Sandel.htm (343 words)

	Contemporary Political Theory - Abstract of article: Freedom of the Encumbered Self: Michael Sandel and Iris Murdoch
		Neither side seemed enlightened by its encounter with the other, as it became increasingly difficult to pin down the differences between the sides, never more so than when Michael Sandel was violently agreeing with Richard Dagger.
		Drawing on the work of novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, this essay argues that Sandel could have made a much stronger argument for his view than he did.
		Sandel need not have conceded or concluded that encumbered selves are unable to choose freely.
	www.palgrave-journals.com /cpt/journal/v4/n2/abs/9300106a.html (192 words)

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