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The author, Michael J. Sandel is the Harvard professor and he gives a lecture about the ‘Justice’ in actual class in Harvard. His class is selected most influential lecture by students. This book shows how people could react about falling into ethical dilemma, is that right or not? There are some questions that we have to think about. The government should get taxes from rich people to help poor people? Is it wrong to say truth sometimes? Should we murder in ethical way? It is all about the ques...
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an interesting if overly academic collectionenjoyed intro and commentary
This is the text for Prof. Michael Sandler's Justice course at Harvard which he teaches in a huge Victorian lecture Hall seating hundreds of students. It's the most popular course at Harvard.. Sandler takes contemporary problems, ranging from the acceptance of a contract to surrogate mothers to affirmative action and shows you how to use the reasoning of the great philosophers to solve them. This book of readings has extracts from Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Rawls and other contempora...
It's a deep discussion about original writings of Jeremy Bentham, John Lock, Immanuel Kant,J.S.Mill and many political philosophies. One of the best read in the recent past. Was overwhelmed to listen to Michael J. Sandel live. Watched his Harvard sessions too, but book definitely stands one step further. Worth the time and energy invested. It opens of new arena of thoughts and takes you into a 'highly moral' world and storms your 'most discussed' and 'less-discussed' aspects of life. Your "thoug...
Read this book in increments over a long period of time for a Sunday School book study. A bit heavy on the philosopy and history for my personal tastes. If you're into studying how different thinkers have considered moral decision-making over time, and how ideas of justice (personal and societal) have evolved over time, this book is for you. My chapter to lead was the one on Immanuel Kant. Whoa! Heavy stuff.