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Michael Sandel

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Justice

  1. IDEA 1

    Three ideas of justice

    Justice can mean maximising welfare, respecting freedom, or cultivating virtue. Most debates mix all three.

  2. IDEA 2

    The trolley problem

    Moral dilemmas reveal tension between outcomes and principles, such as whether you may harm one to save five.

  3. IDEA 3

    Markets and morals

    Some goods are corrupted when bought and sold. Ask what a market does to the thing being traded.

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