
Justice is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on public television. In this 12-part series, college professor Michael Sandel challenges us with hard moral dilemmas and invites us to ponder the right thing to do-in politics and in our everyday lives.
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Air Date: 2009-09-09
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even thoug...
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Today, companies and governments often use Jeremy Benthams utilitarian logic under the name of cost-benefit analysis....
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Sandel introduces the libertarian conception of individual rights, according to which only a minimal state is justifi...
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The philosopher John Locke believes that individuals have certain rights so fundamental that no government can ever t...
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During the Civil War, men drafted into war had the option of hiring substitutes to fight in their place. Professor Sa...
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Professor Sandel introduces Immanuel Kant, a challenging but influential philosopher. Kant rejects utilitarianism. ...
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Immanuel Kants stringent theory of morality allows for no exceptions. Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white...
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Is it just to tax the rich to help the poor? John Rawls says we should answer this question by asking what principles...
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Sandel describes the 1996 court case of a white woman named Cheryl Hopwood who was denied admission to a Texas law sc...
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Aristotle believes the purpose of politics is to promote and cultivate the virtue of its citizens. The telos or goal ...
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Professor Sandel presents Kants objections to Aristotles theory. Kant believes politics must respect individual freed...
Air Date: 2009-09-09
If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how should we deal wit...