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| Republicanism: Republicanism is a political ideology that emphasizes the importance of citizenship, civic virtue, and the rule of law in a republic. Republicans believe that the people should have sovereignty, and that government should be accountable to the people. See also Republic, State, Society, Democracy, Constitution, Parliamentary system._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Michael Sandel on Republicanism - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 173 Republicanism/Sandel/Dagger: Whether 'philosophical' or 'political' , communitarianism is too vague to be helpful and too accommodating to be acceptable. Communities take a great many forms, including some - such as fascist or Nazi communes - that communitarians themselves must find unpalatable or intolerable. Sandel acknowledges the point when he says, in his review of Rawls's Political Liberalism, that the 'term "communitarianism" is misleading insofar as it implies that rights should rest on the values or preferences that prevail in any given community at any given time' (1994(1): 1767). Republicanism/Sandel: He has, accordingly, abandoned this misleading term in favour of 'republicanism'. He persists in his criticism of liberalism, to be sure, but he apparently believes that he is in a better position to criticize as a republican committed to 'a formative politics . that cultivates in citizens the qualities of character self-government requires' (1996(2): 6) than as a communitarian committed to the prevailing values and preferences in a given community at a given time. Citizenship: What counts for the republican is not community per se, but the community of self-governing, public-spirited citizens. Cf. >Republicanism/Pocock, >Arendt/Dagger, >Political Philosophy/Wolin. Gaus I 174 Republicanism/Sandel: (...) the republican concepts and idioms of earlier eras still speak to present concerns. Thus Sandel tries in Democracy's Discontent(2) to devise a 'public philosophy' for the United States by reclaiming the republicanism of the American Founding and the 'political economy of citizenship' that governed American thinking about economic relationships, he argues, into the late nineteenth century. >Neorepublicanism/Dagger. 1. Sandel, Michael (1994) 'Political Liberalism'. Harvard Law Review, 107 (May): 1765-94. 2. Sandel, Michael ( 1996) Democracy 's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. Dagger, Richard 2004. „Communitarianism and Republicanism“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Sand I Michael Sandel The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self 1984 Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |
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