Justice with Michael Sandel Season 1 Episode 1 The Moral Side of Murder/The Case for Cannibalism 2009
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five others, Sandel presents three similar moral conundrums—each one artfully designed to make the decision more difficult. As students stand up to defend their conflicting choices, it becomes clear that the assumptions behind our moral reasoning are often contradictory, and the question of what is right and what is wrong is not always black and white.
- Released: 2009-09-09
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Talk
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3. Free to Choose/Who Owns Me? 2009-09-09
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4. The Land is My Land/Consenting Adults 2009-09-09
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5. Hired Guns?/For Sale: Motherhood 2009-09-09
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7. A Lesson In Lying/A Deal Is A Deal 2009-09-09
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8. What's A Fair Start?/What Do We Deserve? 2009-09-09
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10. The Good Citizen/ Freedom Vs. Fit 2009-09-09
