Michael Sandel. Photo by Alexander Young.
Michael Sandel on 'Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?'
10/29/2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Is it okay to steal a drug your child needs to survive? Would you force one person to die in order to save five others? Would you bid on a baby? These are some of the questions Michael Sandel raises in his extremely popular "Justice" class at Harvard University. It has so many fans that Harvard turned the course into a TV show, running now on public television. Sandel links moral questions to concrete, hotly contested, political issues like bank bailouts, affirmative action and torture. He shows us how political controversies are really debates about values. Along the way, he sprinkles in history lessons on philosophers like Aristotle, Plato and Immanuel Kant.
Michael Sandel spoke at Town Hall Seattle on October 1, 2009. University Book Store and Town Hall Center for Civic Life sponsored the talk. Sandel is the author of many books, including "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?"
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- Michael Sandel's 'Justice' class at Harvard
- Michael Sandel, Harvard bio
- 'Morals Class Is Starting; Please Pass the Popcorn,' The New York Times
- 'Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?' a witty road map for negotiating modern moral dilemmas,' The Seattle Times
- Town Hall Seattle
- University Book Store
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