[Hac-announce] December Conversations

[L.M.C. Harvey]

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About Conversations  December
11, 2010          

 

 

Hello Everyone,   

 

            I
am sending this note about the Saturday Conversations
as new information for those of  us who
haven’t yet read the newsletter  and  as a brief introduction to the Justice series
of  lectures.  These were recorded during a course given by
Michael Sandel at Harvard U. on moral reasoning.  Ideas about what is due to each individual
and of  what a just society would consist,
from Aristotle to John Rawls (20C), are among the subjects of these lectures.  We've previously viewed the first lecture,
Doing the Right Thing.  You may watch the
lectures at your leisure and in any order at either of  the following sites:

 

            athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2Rq4HJBxw&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=PL30C13C91CFFEFEA6

 

            This
month we'll watch Episode 12 which has two parts:  The Good Life and Debating Same-Sex Marriage.  Professor Sandel raises two questions. Is it
necessary to reason about the good life in order to decide what rights people
have and what is just? If so, how is it possible to argue about the nature of
the good life?

 

            This
list of principal readings taken from the course description on the Harvard
website will give you some idea of the ideas covered.  This is not a list for Conversations although
you may be familiar with some or all of these authors.

 

   
* Aristotle, Politics

   
* Locke, Second Treatise of Government

   
* Kant, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals

   
* Mill, Utilitarianism

   
* Rawls, A Theory of Justice

Other assigned readings include excerpts
from Jeremy Bentham and contemporary writers such as Nozick, Dworkin,
MacIntyre, Sandel, and Walzer.                                 

 

            The
book, Justice, that grew out of these lectures was the subject of an HAC Book Discussion in May, 2010.

  


Cynthia Harvey




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