Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport. In Justice, Sandel puts us in the position of the decision-maker and asks how we would respond to a range of moral dilemmas. Should we torture terrorists to protect the innocent? Is it ever right to lie? Is it ever right to break a promise? Drawing on the brilliant philosophers of the past — Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, John Rawls, and more — Sandel shows us that these questions have been debated for centuries. Based on his legendary Harvard course, Justice is an education in thinking through complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today.