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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sandel, Michael J

Titel

Justice : What's the right thing to do?

Auflage

1. ed

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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
• 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 markets in fresh and illuminating ways