The search of virtue and the communitarian story. Conceptions of justice in Michael Sandel

Andrea Villani ()
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Andrea Villani: Dipartimento di Economia Internazionale, delle Istituzioni e dello Sviluppo, Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2012, vol. 120, issue 3, 341-356

Abstract: This paper considers and analyses theses about justice supported by Michael Sandel. The crucial problem concerns the connection between the definition of good for every individual and for a society, and if this good must be defined and pursued freely, or if it can be established by other persons. The question is open and Sandel supports that not necessarily a society where exists the widest degree of freedom is also a good society. In such a situation Sandel supports the idea that in any case the possible choice for individual and society should be discussed in terms of reason, and yet maintaining the maximum freedom in the society. He emphasizes the need of a civic engagement by those who support the importance of moral values as identified according to the Communitarian tradition, and according what is thought as a personal and civic virtue to be practised.

Keywords: Justice; Criteria of rationality in individual and social choice; Utopia; Democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A13 B41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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