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Justice with Michael Sandel
Season 1 · Episode 3
Free to Choose/Who Owns Me?
0.0September 9, 2009
Sandel introduces the libertarian conception of individual rights, according to which only a minimal state is justified. Libertarians argue that government shouldnt have the power to enact laws that 1) protect people from themselves, such as seat belt laws, 2) impose some peoples moral values on society as a whole, or 3) redistribute income from the rich to the poor. Sandel explains the libertarian notion that redistributive taxation is akin to forced labor with references to Bill Gates and Michael Jordan.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Moral Side of Murder/The Case for Cannibalism
- Episode 2Putting a Price Tag on Life/How to Measure Pleasure
- Episode 3Free to Choose/Who Owns Me?
- Episode 4The Land is My Land/Consenting Adults
- Episode 5Hired Guns?/For Sale: Motherhood
- Episode 6Mind Your Motive/The Supreme Principle of Morality
- Episode 7A Lesson In Lying/A Deal Is A Deal
- Episode 8What's A Fair Start?/What Do We Deserve?