Justice

Stay up to date with the latest and most provocative writing from Harvard University's most popular course. Justice is both stimulating and sobering—a new and essential addition to the small shelf of books that convincingly address the most difficult questions of our civic life.

Michael J. Sandel's "Justice" course is one of Harvard's most popular and influential. Nearly a thousand students flock to the university's campus amphitheater to hear Sandel connect major philosophical problems with mundane, everyday matters. These are thought-provoking topics that, brought together in this book, offer the reader the same exciting journey that draws Harvard students: same-sex marriage, assisted suicide, abortion, immigration, taxes, the place of religion in politics, the moral limits of markets.

In Justice: What It Means to Do the Right Thing, Sandel dramatizes the challenge of meditating on these conflicts and shows how a more confident approach to philosophy can help us understand politics, morality, and also rethink our convictions.

"The ideas of Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick and John Rawls have rarely, if ever, been so accessible (...) In terms we can all understand, . . . physics confronts us with concepts that lie, often without our realizing it, behind our conflicts." - Jonathan Rauch, The New York Times .

"Justice is a timely invitation to step back from political bickering and consider whether we are capable of having a sensible discussion about what kind of society we truly want to live in." - Jonathan Ru. The Chiserver.