
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: 2009-09-13
If you had to choose between killing one person to save the lives of five others and doing nothing, even though you k...
Air Date: 2009-09-20
Sandel presents some contemporary cases in which cost-benefit analysis was used to put a dollar value on human life. ...
Air Date: 2009-09-27
Sandel introduces the libertarian notion that redistributive taxation—taxing the rich to give to the poor—is akin to ...
Air Date: 2009-10-04
The philosopher John Locke believes that individuals have certain rights—to life, liberty, and property—which were gi...
Air Date: 2009-10-11
During the Civil War, men drafted into war had the option of hiring substitutes to fight in their place. Many student...
Air Date: 2009-10-18
Professor Sandel introduces Immanuel Kant, a challenging but influential philosopher. Kant rejects the notion that mo...
Air Date: 2009-10-25
Immanuel Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, is a violation of one’s own dignity. Sandel introduces t...
Air Date: 2009-11-01
Rawls argues that even meritocracy—a distributive system that rewards effort—doesn’t go far enough in leveling the pl...
Air Date: 2009-11-08
Students discuss the pros and cons of affirmative action. Should we try to correct for inequality in educational back...
Air Date: 2009-11-15
Aristotle believes the purpose of politics is to promote and cultivate the virtue of its citizens. The telos or goal ...
Air Date: 2009-11-22
Communitarians argue that, in addition to voluntary and universal duties, we also have obligations of membership, sol...
Air Date: 2009-11-29
If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how should we deal wit...