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Sandel’s online Justice Course

Cross-posted over at In Socrates’ Wake: I just came across this website (via Everyday Philosophy at the Purple Bike Café) that is gradually releasing videos from what appears to be a comprehensive introductory ethics course by Michael Sandel at Harvard. I’ve read Sandel, but I had no idea he was such a gifted lecturer. The [...]

Posted 04 October 2009 Adam § , , § Comments (0)

Liberté, Egalité, and Rawls

We’re reading an excerpt from A Theory of Justice in my Social Ethics class this week, which means trying to show the relevance of the Difference Principle. I don’t know if it’s the way I teach Rawls, whether Rawls is just misguided or what, but almost no one ever likes Rawls, and particularly the Difference [...]

Posted 11 September 2007 Adam § , , , , § Comments (7)