Professor Michael Sandel presents a series of lectures from his Harvard undergraduate course in Political Philosophy - can you make a moral case for eating people? How about murder? Do the works of the great philosophers offer any suggestions?
The series starts on BBC Four from 8.30pm, Tuesday 25th January 2010
Episode guide
OU on the BBC: Justice: The Moral Side Of Murder
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Can there be a case for killing? Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: The Moral Side Of Murder
OU on the BBC: Justice: A Lesson In Lying
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You should never lie. Or... should you? Michael Sandel considers when lies might be the right thing to do - and why truth is sometimes... Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: A Lesson In Lying
OU on the BBC: Justice: How To Measure Pleasure
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Michael Sandel tests John Stuart Mill's belief that higher pleasures are enjoyed by a well-informed majority. Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: How To Measure Pleasure
OU on the BBC: Justice: The Case For Cannibalism
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The idea of eating human flesh creates something between moral repugnance and squeamishness in most people - but Michael Sandel asks if there can be... Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: The Case For Cannibalism
OU on the BBC: Justice: What's a fair start?
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Is taxing the rich to help the poor the right thing to do? Michael Sandel explores the question. Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: What's a fair start?
OU on the BBC: Justice: The Good Citizen
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How can a dispute on the golf course show us how we should think about citizenship? Michael Sandel explains. Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: The Good Citizen
OU on the BBC: Justice: Freedom Versus Fit
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If there's a place for us in society into which we fit best, does that mean we have any choice in what we do? Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: Freedom Versus Fit
OU on the BBC: Justice: The Good Life
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Sometimes, the law cannot be neutral on issues of social debate. Michael Sandel explains why. Read more : OU on the BBC: Justice: The Good Life
Justice: A Citizen's Guide
OU on the BBC: Justice: Amnesty! When They Are All Free
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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
OU on the BBC: Justice: Timeshift - Crime and Punishment - The Story of Capital Punishment
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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
OU on the BBC: Justice: Timeshift - Crime and Punishment - The Story of Corporal 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
OU on the BBC: Justice: Timeshift - Retrial By Television
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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
OU on the BBC: Justice: Fairness And The Big Society
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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
OU on the BBC: Justice: A Citizen's Guide To The 21st Century
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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
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