To date approximately 15,000 students have taken the legendary “Justice” class taught by Harvard University philosophy professor, Michael J. Sandel.
What make Professor Sandel’s class so interesting and counter-cultural is that Professor Sandel is attempting to get people to start thinking again. He is challenging people to think about some of the great issues facing society in the post-modern era. Topics that the main stream media could care less. Pressing and philosophical questions as to whether torturing of alleged terrorists can ever be justified, the redistribution of wealth, the alleged and fruitless war on drugs, is it right to pay a celebrity, (some one such as David Letterman), 700 times more than a school teacher, to name a few of his posed questions to his students.
What is even more remarkable that most of his live Harvard lectures can be viewed for free by visiting the Harvard website at www.harvardjustice.org. In these video lectures you can listen at the real debates between Professor Sandel and his Harvard students.
For people who are tried of nonsense T.V. shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, and other worthless, and degrading reality shows, these lectures are mind inspiring and challenge us to think about what is the right thing to do in the post-modern era, for the betterment of not only the people of the United States but for the entire human race.
Vincent J. Sanzone, Jr., Esq.
Dated: June 21, 2011
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