Justice: What is the right thing to do? Episode 1-7

Justice:

What is the right thing to do?

Michael Sandel

Episode 1-7

 
Michael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980.  His books include Democracy’s Discontent, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, and, most recently, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?  His writings have been translated into eleven foreign languages and have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and the New York Times.

Sandel has lectured widely in North America, Europe, China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand, on topics including democracy, liberalism, bioethics, globalization, and justice.  He delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford University, was a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, and in 2009 delivered the BBC’s Reith Lectures.  From 2002-2005, Sandel served on the President’s Council on Bioethics.  A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sandel received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. 

2009 BBC REITH LECTURES

In 2009, Michael Sandel delivered the Reith Lectures of the BBC. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and on the BBC World Service, the Reith Lectures are considered the most prestigious public lectures in Britain.  Sandel was the first Harvard faculty member to receive this honor since John Kenneth Galbraith in 1966.  His four lectures, titled "A New Citizenship," address the prospect for a new politics of the common good.

listen to 2009 Reith lectures

SANDEL'S NEW BOOK ON JUSTICE

Michael Sandel’s latest book, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, can be found here:

"Justice:  What's the Right Thing to Do?"

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source:http://www.justiceharvard.org/