September 9, 2009
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew th...Read more
September 9, 2009
Today, companies and governments often use Jeremy Benthams utilitarian logic under the name of cost-benefit analysis. Sandel prese...Read more
September 9, 2009
Sandel introduces the libertarian conception of individual rights, according to which only a minimal state is justified. Libertari...Read more
September 9, 2009
The philosopher John Locke believes that individuals have certain rights so fundamental that no government can ever take them away...Read more
September 9, 2009
During the Civil War, men drafted into war had the option of hiring substitutes to fight in their place. Professor Sandel asks stu...Read more
September 9, 2009
Professor Sandel introduces Immanuel Kant, a challenging but influential philosopher. Kant rejects utilitarianism. He argues tha...Read more
September 9, 2009
Immanuel Kants stringent theory of morality allows for no exceptions. Kant believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, is a vi...Read more
September 9, 2009
Is it just to tax the rich to help the poor? John Rawls says we should answer this question by asking what principles you would ch...Read more
September 9, 2009
Sandel describes the 1996 court case of a white woman named Cheryl Hopwood who was denied admission to a Texas law school, even th...Read more
September 9, 2009
Aristotle believes the purpose of politics is to promote and cultivate the virtue of its citizens. The telos or goal of the state ...Read more
September 9, 2009
Professor Sandel presents Kants objections to Aristotles theory. Kant believes politics must respect individual freedom. People mu...Read more
September 9, 2009
If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how should we deal with the fact th...Read more