Word: sandel
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When I took Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” my sophomore year, Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel asked the students—more than 600 people in Sanders Theater—whether they would rather live on a farm in Kansas or lose one of their hands. The overwhelming majority indicated that they would rather lose a hand. I couldn’t believe it. It’s your hand! I guess the rationale is that even without one of your hands you can still do cool things like go clubbing and see foreign...
...right to form his group and solicit membership under whatever terms he pleased. The idea of invading countries to replace their current leaders with ones conducive to American national interests is noxious and simple-minded in itself, but cloak the notion in the rhetoric of Tom Paine and Michael Sandel and you’ve got yourself an Idea, and with it a veritable army of defenders. In an environment of extreme rhetorical posturing founded on rigorous and uncompromising tolerance for speech on its own—a present-day Napoleonic code of inaction—Harvard is the very...
Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel lectured the older boys about the ethics of human cloning...
During the days, the students will be divided into two age groups to take specially designed classes, from Harvard’s top professors—including a lectures by University President and economist Lawrence H. Summers, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger Porter, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and chemistry demonstrations from Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach...
...Sandel concluded with another joke, asking Summers whether Adam Smith’s market system would support the idea that “university professors should be compensated based on the number of people who attend their classes...