A report on Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

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Cover of the first edition

Book about liberalism by the philosopher Michael Sandel.

- Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
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Michael Sandel

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American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television.

American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television.

He is also known for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982).

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A Theory of Justice

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1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society).

1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society).

Cover of the first American edition

Michael Sandel criticized Rawls in Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982), arguing that Rawls encourages people to think about justice while divorced from the values and aspirations that define who they are as persons and that allow people to determine what justice is.

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Communitarianism

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Philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community.

Philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community.

Two-axis political spectrum chart with an economic axis and a socio-cultural axis, and ideologically representative colors
A variant of the Nolan chart using traditional political color coding (red leftism versus blue rightism) with communitarianism on the top left

Michael Sandel – Liberalism and the Limits of Justice