Sandel on a world without philosophers Featuring: Video Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University

Michael Sandel considers what life would be like without the great philosophical thinkers  Watch now: Sandel on a world without philosophers

Sandel on justice Featuring: Video Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University

Michael Sandel explores why we should care about justice and being just  Watch now: Sandel on justice

Sandel on Kant and the capacity for reason Featuring: Video Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University

Michael Sandel looks at how Kant's emphasis on our capacity to reason has a place for beings who lack much in the way of reasoning...  Watch now: Sandel on Kant and the capacity for reason

Sandel on Bentham's views on happiness and justice Featuring: Video Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University

Sandel discusses Bentham's view that justice is entirely about maximising one's own and everyone else's happiness  Watch now: Sandel on Bentham's views on happiness and justice

Sandel on Aristotle's thoughts on the good life Featuring: Video Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University

Sandel asks whether if there are many different kinds of the good life  Watch now: Sandel on Aristotle's thoughts on the good life

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Justice: A Citizen's Guide on BBC Four

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Marking the 50th anniversary of the campaigning group, Storyville presents a history of Amnesty International.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: Amnesty! When They Are All Free

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Timeshift steps outside the highly charged debate over electric chairs and fatal injections to investigate the facts about judical killings.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: Timeshift - Crime and Punishment - The Story of Capital Punishment

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Spare the rod and spoil the child? Timeshift looks back to what the world was like before the rod was spared.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: Timeshift - Crime and Punishment - The Story of Corporal Punishment

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Stepping in when justice goes wrong: BBC Four pays tribute to the campaigning team at Rough Justice.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: Timeshift - Retrial By Television

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Michael Sandel takes a lively look at some of the moral questions surrounding our ideas of justice.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: Justice with Michael Sandel

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 Michael Sandel takes on the idea of fairness, and asks how it might apply to David Cameron's Big Society.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: Fairness And The Big Society

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Michael Sandel explores justice from a philosophical angle - are there absolute rights and wrongs, and what can Bentham, Kant and Aristotle teach us?  Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: A Citizen's Guide To The 21st Century

Justice Season on the BBC

Read more about the Justice Season on the BBC  Read more : Justice Season on the BBC