Political philosopher Michael Sandel has been teaching a course at Harvard called “Justice” for two decades. His material is included in this book.
Political philosopher Michael Sandel has been teaching a course at Harvard called “Justice” for two decades. In 2007, this course set a record for attendance in the entire history of the university, and its materials were included in a book under the same name and are now available not only to students of one of the world’s leading educational institutions. Is it worth taking surplus from the rich for the benefit of the poor? Is it possible to torture a terrorist so that he betrays where the already ticking bomb is planted? Is the happiness of the world worth a tear of a child and does the freedom of a fist end in a millimeter from the tip of someone else’s nose? Moral dilemmas have always occupied the minds of the greatest philosophers in history, and Sandel examines all possible answers to and rationale for the “eternal questions”, drawing on the work of Aristotle, Kant, John Mill and other thinkers, illustrating them with many practical examples from modern life.
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 352 p.