Sandel Michael J. Justice: What's the right thing to do?

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. — 320 p.For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport, The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard course—Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a more robust and thoughtful public discourse. In terms we can all understand, wrote Jonathan Rauch in The New York Times, Justice confronts us with the concepts that lurk...beneath our conflicts.
Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets—Sandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.
Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise—an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.Dedication
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