THE TUFTS DAILY
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
MICHAEL J. SANDEL JUSTICE: WHAT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO?
Moral reflection
is not a solitary pursuit
but a public endeavor. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2010 4:30-6:00 P.M. RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ASEAN AUDITORIUM CABOT INTERCULTURAL CENTER 160 PACKARD AVENUE MEDFORD / SOMERVILLE CAMPUS Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His recent book, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, a New York Times bestseller, relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of our time. Sandel’s other books include Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy’s Discontent, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. His work has been translated into fifteen foreign languages. His undergraduate course “Justice” has enrolled over 15,000 students. A recipient of the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Sandel has lectured throughout North America, Europe, Japan, China, India, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. He has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne (Paris), delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford University, and served on the President’s Council on Bioethics, a national body appointed by the President to examine the ethical implications of new biomedical technologies. The recipient of three honorary degrees, Sandel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University (1975), Sandel received his doctorate from Oxford University (D.Phil.,1981), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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