I recently spoke to Professor Sandel about his new book Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Justice
Every day we move further away from being a thoughtful society. We have lost our sense of the responsibilities of citizenship. In our sound bite infused culture, political extremism and the simplistic allure of pop culture have destroyed our ability to think, to reason and most of all to make sound moral judgments. Michael Sandel has been working for over two decades to reverse this. As one of Harvard's most popular professors, more than 12,000 students have taken his course JUSTICE to debate and try and reason through the big questions of political philosophy and moral judgments.
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