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They say opposites attract, but no one expected the unlikely love affair between Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and Visiting Lecturer George F. Will which has captivated students in Government 1091. Lovers and students alike should take note: this is not merely the reasonable result of bringing together two famous thinkers whose philosophies have evolved past their now outmoded political reputations...
Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, who heads a subcommittee on Moral Reasoning, attributes the high average moral reasoning course size to a lack of faculty interested in that area...
...Ideally, there should be more courses in moral reasoning, and we, as a subcommittee, have worked hard to find more such courses," Sandel says. "Our problem is that there aren't enough faculty in the University teaching in the areas of moral and political philosophy...
...Sandel, who teaches Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice," which drew 859 students last fall, says large lecture courses have both advantages and disadvantage...
...Sandel says that having a large number of students reading the same books and debating the same question encourages discussion of course issues outside the classroom...