Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

[Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?]

SANDEL, Michael J.

Year:

2008

Type:

Non Fiction

Public:

Adults

Year of publication:

2010

Pages:

320

Moral assessment:

Type: Thought

Nothing inappropriate.

Requires prior general knowledge of the subject.

Readers with knowledgeable about the subject matter.

Contains doctrinal errors of some importance.

Whilst not being explicitly against the faith, the general approach or its main points are ambiguous or opposed to the Church’s teachings.

Incompatible with Catholic doctrine.

Literary quality:

Recommendable:

Transmits values:

Sexual content:

Violent content:

Vulgar or obscene language:

Ideas that contradict Church teaching:

The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University, where he has been teaching since 1980. He studied with Charles Taylor and is also known for his critique of John Rawls' Theory of Justice. Justice is doing the right thing, although in the present book the thinking is a bit more structured, as it is the result of the ethics course he runs at Harvard.

He starts with the most fragile moral systems to reach the most consistent ones. He discusses utilitarianism, liberalism, the theories of Immanuel Kant, John Rawls and ends with Aristotle. Perhaps the best part is the epilogue, where the role of morality and religion in the public debate is discussed. Sandel argues that the current debate is not neutral. Without morality and religion, the public space is dominated by the logic of the market or any other ideology.