Michael Sandel, Debating Same-Sex Marriage

Here is Episode 12 of Sandel's extraordinary course on Justice at Harvard.

http://www.justiceharvard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=20

See also his book Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?


or DVD

Sandel presents a critique of two perspectives on justice--utilitarian and "freedom of choice"--both libertarian and Rawlsian liberal-egalitarian versions. In their place he argues for a variant of Aristotelian virtue ethics--justice involves cultivating virtue and reasoning about the common good.