Problem 1: How do Rawls, Sandel and Taylor conceove of the relationship between the self and our ends? Who do you think gets closest to the truth? What implications does this have for the balance between individual rights and the "common good", however defined?
Problem 2: Regarding the social thesis critique of liberalism which is the best approach to maintaining political legitimacy (and hence authority) in a multi-ethnic state, asserting the common good (or way of life), liberal nationalism, or communitarian politics?