Michael Sandel’s Justice
Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
by Michael J. Sandel
–Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
Justice is something everybody claims to want even though nobody can really agree on what it means. That’s where Michael Sandel comes in.
The Harvard philosophy professor has turned the concept into an extremely popular undergraduate course, a book, and a television series. His take: Justice is the proper distribution of the goods we value, like “income and wealth, duties and rights, powers and opportunities, offices and honors.” Justice should, depending on your perspective, maximize society’s aggregate welfare, …
