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    Aligning Values and Politics: Empowerment Versus Entitlement
    Aligning Values and Politics: Empowerment Versus Entitlement
    Aligning Values and Politics: Empowerment Versus Entitlement
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    Aligning Values and Politics: Empowerment Versus Entitlement

    By Michael Gendre and Nicolás Sánchez

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    Aligning Values and Politics argues that empowering individuals for self-actualization is an indispensable tool for attaining freedom; therefore, politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Private property rights have in the past helped people to develop skills, but such rights were abused. Once these rights are combined with an ethics of responsibility, the book opens the doors to a nonpartisan analysis of income inequality, inheritance, race relations, abortion and governance. The book argues that the American government is engaged in producing “bread and circuses,” inducing people into living vicariously. Using the ideas of Immanuel Kant, the authors claim that we can return to a civil society that values independence rather than entitlements.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateMar 2, 2016
    ISBN9780761867241
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