Harvard Prof Michael Sandel on Justice

Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?

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Michael J. Sandel’s legendary Justice course is one of the most popular at Harvard University. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day. At the same time public television premiers the new series Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? we’re thrilled to bring Professor Sandel to Berkeley.

What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? These questions are at the core of our public life today – and at the heart of Justice in which Michael Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions. He offers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students, the challenges of thinking our way through the hard moral challenges we confront as citizens, in a searching, lyrical exploration that invites all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways. Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets, patriotism and dissent: Sandel shows how even the most hotly contested issues can be illuminated by reasoned moral argument.

Michael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard, where he has taught since 1980, and the author of many books.

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