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

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Michael J. Sandel ebook
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374532508, 9780374532505
Page: 320
Format: pdf

Can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well. The course will explore compelling, difficult, questions of justice and morality. Usually when I finish a book, I look forward to putting my thoughts down and writing a review. 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. 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. For some reason, I have sort of dreaded finishing and writing about Michael Sandel's Justice. Will you ever steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Welcome to the Clearing House for Environmental Course Material. How much is one human life worth? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? This weblog provides links to current news and reference information about the climate, environmental ethics and environmental justice issues. "Harvard is offering a free online course called Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?