Sandel - Justice thread
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Again, in an effort to provide some more groundwork regarding the ethical philosophies (utilitarianism, virtue ethics, etc). These ethical philosophies are based on essentially two basic moral principles or moral reasoning:
- Consequentialist - locates morality in the consequences of an act (ex. utilitarianism)
- Categorical - locates morality in certain absolute moral requirements or categorical duties and rights.
To help explain the above I have a great lecture video for you (it is captioned) by Michael Sandel (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.an excellent professor at Harvard. This video is of a lecture he gave at Harvard in his Justice class. Watch from the beginning to 16:02 (16 minutes, 02 seconds).
REQUIRED:
First, I want you to give me some feedback on the Sandel lecture. What would you have done in each scenario and why. Keep that to about 100 to 150 words.