{"id":622,"date":"2013-03-24T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/03\/whats-the-right-thing-to-do-michael-sandels-famous-harvard-course.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:52:45","slug":"whats-the-right-thing-to-do-michael-sandels-famous-harvard-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/03\/whats-the-right-thing-to-do-michael-sandels-famous-harvard-course.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Right Thing to Do? Michael Sandel&#8217;s Famous Harvard Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fajlZMdPkKE?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Should Judge Judy earn 20 times what a Supreme Court Judge earns?\u00a0 Michael Jordan earns over $20 million dollars and Bill Gates is worth billions. Should those inequalities be permitted?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is what Michael Sandel\u2019s popular Harvard philosophy course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justiceharvard.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">What\u2019s the Right Thing to do<\/a>? is\u00a0all\u00a0about. \u00a0It\u2019s \u00a0now on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justiceharvard.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the web for free<\/a> and will also be offered for free through EdX. You can read more about it at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/03\/michael_sandels_famous_harvard_course_on_justice_launches_as_a_mooc_on_tuesday.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open Culture site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I use short clips from several of Sandel\u2019s episodes in my religion class when we discuss morality in some of the\u00a0different\u00a0religions we cover. \u00a0The topic for our\u00a0next\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blairfaith.3cdn.net\/ecaad6d3100d9566b1_d3m6bvrs4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Face to Faith video\u00a0conference<\/a> is\u00a0wealth,\u00a0poverty, and charity. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=VcL66zx_6No\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">In his 8th\u00a0episode<\/a>, \u00a0Sandel discusses \u00a0the morality of \u00a0wealth. \u00a0Is such wealth justified? \u00a0Is it good for the rest of society\u2013for the poor, and the disenfranchised? \u00a0What do\u00a0the\u00a0great\u00a0philosophers, like Jonh Rawls,\u00a0\u00a0say about it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Judge Judy earn 20 times what a Supreme Court Judge earns?\u00a0 Michael Jordan earns over $20 million dollars and Bill Gates is worth billions. 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