Should society promote specific moral values, and if so, whose virtues should take precedence?
Justice : what's the right thing to do? / Michael J. Sandel | Catalogue
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: Believed that to determine justice, we must first understand the purpose (
Debating the moral limits of markets in cases like price gouging during natural disasters or the outsourcing of military service.
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offers a deeper version of freedom based on reason. He argues that morality isn't about consequences but about duty—acting according to "categorical imperatives" that treat people as ends in themselves, never as mere means.
Sandel identifies three primary approaches to defining justice, each focusing on a different core principle [5.3, 5.33]: