Word: sandel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, who teaches a course on ethics and biotechnology with Melton in the spring term, said in an e-mail that he had supported Melton in the poll...
...months, the national political debate brought attention to a variety of seemingly intractable problems in areas such as energy use, health care, and the foreclosure crisis. To many, the election of Barack Obama proves our willingness as a nation to confront and solve these challenges. To Harvard professor Michael Sandel, the citizens of America spoke with their votes and “rejected these narrow notions of the common good.” He told Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, in a November 5 column, that this expanded notion of the common good “must also...
...Sandel—who teaches the perennially popular Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice”—as another key factor in bringing him to this level of political involvement. Zuckerman said that while he takes issue with some aspects of the communitarian ethic that Sandel espouses, the two courses he took with Sandel last year “definitely underscored for me the important role that active participation in public life plays in keeping our democracy robust.” While on campus, Zuckerman says he was able “to take on a more...
...weather, or maybe it was the debate hangover, but Saturday was ugly. The top-25 saw upsets galore: Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Wake Forest, all going down.But for me, only three games mattered. Let’s approach from a communitarian perspective (big-ups to my man Michael Sandel, I know you’re reading this column, and I just want to say, you’re so enlightened, and stuff, like, I mean, wow, smart, and you’re modeled after Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, or the other way around, well, either way, you know what...
...people who are thinking about other careers, but who knows.” The class with the fourth highest enrollment, Economics 1010a: “Microeconomic Theory,” also saw a fall of 30 students. Though large classes can be criticized for their impersonal feel, Michael J. Sandel, the government professor who has taught “Justice” for years, pointed to the merits of engaging with hundreds of undergraduates together in one room. “One advantage [of a big class size] is that, with so many students reading and thinking about the same...