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'Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography'
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Lincoln's Prudence.
LINCOLN'S VIRTUES: AN ETHICAL BIOGRAPHY. By WILLIAM LEE MILLER. Knopf. 515 pp. $30.
WHILE DESCRIBING the Rawlsian-liberal idea of "the unencumbered self" and "the procedural republic" in Democracy's Discontents (1994), political theorist Michael Sandel highlighted two individuals who represent the pro and con of those terms. They are Stephen A. Douglas, appearing for the unencumbered proceduralists, and Abraham Lincoln, cast in the role of a moralist who insisted on grounding his understanding of liberal politics in natural law. This ...See the full content of this document
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