Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?



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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374532508, 9780374532505
Page: 320
Format: pdf


You can watch the 12 * ~1hour 'episodes' here: http://www.justiceharvard.org/. Sandel will give the annual Boston University School of Law Distinguished Lecture concerning his recent book, Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do?, followed by a symposium on the book. From time immemorial - or at least since Spike Lee's 1989 movie Do the Right Thing - men and women have asked, like the subtitle of Michael Sandel's new book, "What's the right thing to do?"[1] Every year a thousand or so Harvard undergraduates seeking an answer to this question sign up for "Moral Reasoning 22: Justice," Professor Sandel's renowned introductory course and the most popular offering in that university's history. Back in 2009, Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel made his course, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, available on the web for free (YouTube - iTunes - Web). We are always faced with the decision to do what's right, or do what's easy. Justice is an excellent overview of basic issues in moral and political philosophy written in an accessible style with interesting real world examples and thought experiments. Can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well. Doing the right thing is usually the difficult thing. For some reason, I have sort of dreaded finishing and writing about Michael Sandel's Justice. But it's the right thing to do. When we act out of duty—doing something simply because it is right—only then do our actions have moral worth. Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise—an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life. In this post I want to summarize the main ideas described in the book “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Usually when I finish a book, I look forward to putting my thoughts down and writing a review. There's an excellent series of lectures on Justice: What's the right thing to do? These lecture videos became quite popular earlier this year.