PHI 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Civics, Gated Community
3 May 2019
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Sandel and the common good: citizenship, sacrifice, and service. Civic education takes place when diverse individuals come together in common institutions: the moral limits of markets. Corrupt or degrade our most valued social practices. Which practices should be protected from the effects of marketizing requires public debate. Requires discussion of our competing concepts of what to value: inequality, solidarity, and civic virtue. What happens if we overlook the effects of the increasing gap between rich and poor. Inequality deepens the divide between rich and poor. Send their children to separate private or wealthy public schools. Attend private health clubs and live in gated community. Hire private security and reject public transportation. Primary purpose of a politics ( a morality) of the common good: Reconstruction of the infrastructure of a civic life: a politics of moral engagement. Reducing fixation on reality tv and scandal.
