08/08/2014
How should political authority be distributed?
JUSTICE is the first Harvard course to be made freely available. It is your turn to take this journey in moral reflection as Harvard opens its classroom.
JUSTICE is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on public television. Nearly a thousand students pack Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre to hear Michael Sandel, “perhaps the most prominent college professor in America,” (Washington Post) talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. This now enables you to take your turn to take the same journey in moral refl
08/08/2014
How should political authority be distributed?
04/08/2014
Join the discussion on Monday August 4th at the National Library (6:30pm)
30/07/2014
Is it unfair for the government or other institutions to consider race or ethnicity as a factor in hiring?
25/07/2014
According to Rawls there should be no differences in income and wealth, except those differences that make even the least advantaged members of society better off. Do you agree?
23/07/2014
Often, poor kids who are very talented have unequal opportunities because their parents lack the money to send them to good schools, to pay for private lessons, and so on. Compared to equally talented children of rich parents, poor kids have fewer opportunities to develop their talents.
According to Rawls’s idea of fair equality of opportunity, this is unjust. People with the same natural talents and the same willingness to use them should have the same chances of success, no matter how rich or poor their parents, no matter their s*x, or race, or any other social distinction. Do you agree?
18/07/2014
Is telling a misleading truth morally equivalent to lying?
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