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Symposium:
"Civility and the American Conversation"
Stephen Carter, Amy Gutmann, and Michael Sandel
Thursday, November 11, 1999
Stephen
Carter
Amy Gutmann
Michael Sandel
Stephen Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University. A prolific writer, his most recent book is Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. In it he argues that civility is disintegrating because people have forgotten the obligations owed to one another, and are consumed with self-indulgence. Cited as one of the nation's leading public intellectuals by the New York Times, Carter was selected by Time magazine as one of the 50 leaders of the next century.
Amy Gutmann is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the University Center for Human Values and the Program in Ethics and Public Affairs. She publishes widely in political philosophy and practical ethics, and her books include Democratic Education, Democracy and Disagreement (coauthored with Dennis Thompson), and Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (coauthored with K. Anthony Appiah).
Michael Sandel is professor of government at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in contemporary political philosophy, the history of political thought, and, at Harvard Law School, a course on markets, morals, and law. He is the author of Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. Sandel has lectured widely in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia to academic and general audiences, and has worked with public-school teachers and principals on issues of civic education.
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