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Cowles Professor of Government Judith N. Shklar, who was joined by Associate Professor Michael J. Sandel and former Harvard professor and famous social critic Michael J. Walzer, told an audience of 200 that the field of political theory revived itself through the study of intellectual history...
...Sandel investigated how the various types of philosophy serve as the underpinnings of liberal democracy. He said that in recent times there has developed a philosophy called communitarianism, which leaves man the room for moral concerns in developing societal consensus...
Fall 1987: 10:00 a.m. You roll over, reach for the remote controls, turn on the TV, and there's Michael J. Sandel talking about Kant in your living room...
...mainstay of Sandel's presentation is Professor John Rawls's Theory of Justice. Two of the key concepts in this work are an original position and a veil of ignorance. Having taken a Sandel course before in which these concepts were discussed, I hope the following explanation proves adequate for the discussion at hand (apologies to those of you who have just sweated through the deeper nuances...
Professor Michael Sandel chose his subject well. But from what many students have shown, the challenge he's posed hasn't brought out the real philosophy of "Justice." What it has revealed are a few subtle truths about the biases of Harvard students...