Is killing sometimes morally required? Is the free market fair? It is sometimes wrong to tell the truth? What is justice, and what does it mean? These and other questions are at the heart of Michael Sandel's 'Justice'.

A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? These are the questions Michael Sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalism. This new edition includes a new introduction and a new final chapter in which Professor Sandel responds to the later...

Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows.

The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and...

V knižním zpracování populárního televizního pořadu profesora Michaela Sandela (Harvard) se čtenáři představují svižně a vtipně psané kapitoly, bohatě doplněné aktuálními příklady problematiky spravedlnosti.

Rozehrávají se v nich některé z nejožehavějších morálních otázek, které dnes hýbou společností na Západě: je morální sanovat banky, požadovat přemrštěné ceny, pozitivně diskriminovat při přijímání na univerzitu či ukládat povinnou službu v armádě? Odhalují také anatomii některých klíčových hodnotových sporů: o...