Justice what's the right thing to do?
Popular Harvard professor Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of mark...
| Main Author: | Sandel, Michael J. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Doing the right thing
- The greatest happiness principle : utilitarianism
- Do we own ourselves? : libertarianism
- Hired help : markets and morals
- What matters is the motive : Immanuel Kant
- The case for equality : John Rawls
- Arguing affirmative action
- Who deserves what? : Aristotle
- What do we owe one another? : dilemmas of loyalty
- Justice and the common good.