Michael Sandel Quotes

• First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

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  Good Life, Rights, Justice

  Michael J. Sandel (2005). “Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

  Michael Sandel

  Doe, Way, Determine

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• The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

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  Real, Ideas, Personas

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• Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

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  Perfect, Democracy, Doe

  Michael J. Sandel (2012). “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”, p.225, Macmillan

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• Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.

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  Needs, Want, Limits

  Michael J. Sandel (2009). “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?”, p.265, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

  Michael Sandel

  Purpose, Love Of Learning

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

  Michael Sandel

  Tools, Politics, Way

  Michael J. Sandel (2012). “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

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  Self, Innocence, Lost

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• The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.

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  Past, Greed, Expansion

  "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets". Book by Michael Sandel, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

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  Spiritual, Justice, Moral

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• A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

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  Motivación, Inspiración, Personas

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• You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

  Michael Sandel

  Chips, Fish And Chips, Fishes

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• En el embarazo natural, más de la mitad de los óvulos fecundados no llegan a implantarse o se pierden. ¿Deberíamos considerarlo un caso de mortalidad infantil? Y si es así, ¿por qué no organizamos ambiciosas campañas de salud pública para intentar salvar y rescatar todos los óvulos fecundados que se pierden en el embarazo natural? Necesitaríamos una campaña de salud pública de proporciones masivas si realmente hubiera una tasa de mortalidad infantil superior al cincuenta por ciento.

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  Pregnancy, Eggs, Trying

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

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  Mean, Egalitarianism, Ideas

  "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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• There's no necessary connection between maximizing social utility or economic wealth and creating a flourishing democracy. The first does not guarantee the second. The only way to create a flourishing democracy is to find ways to reason together about the big questions, including hard questions about justice and the common good, to reason together about these questions so that we as citizens can decide how to shape the forces that govern our lives.

  Michael Sandel

  Justice, Democracy, Together

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• They say the state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life, but should leave them as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

  Michael Sandel

  Liberty, Citizens, Way

  "Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics".

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• I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

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  Niños, Pensar, Padres

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• La democracia no exige una igualdad perfecta, pero sí que los ciudadanos compartan una vida común. Lo que importa es que personas de diferentes orígenes y posiciones sociales se encuentren y choquen en el curso de la vida ordinaria.

  Michael Sandel

  What Matters, Perfect, People

  "What Money Can't Buy by Michael Sandel - review" by John Lanchester, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

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  Jobs, Careers, Mastery

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• If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a kind of school for humility than it should be, and we will become too accustomed to regarding children as instruments of our ambition and of our desires.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Humility, Ambition

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• Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.

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  Thinking, Assumption, Behavior

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• One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

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  Children, Opportunity, Moral Growth

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• I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.

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  Children, Ambition, Thinking

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• Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.

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  Children, College, Thinking

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• Es cierto que hablar de una ética de la superdotación, que es en gran medida la ética que despliego al plantear cuestiones sobre los niños de diseño y la ingeniería genética, una apreciación de la superdotación del niño o de la superdotación de la vida tiene resonancias religiosas, porque muchas tradiciones religiosas hacen hincapié en el sentido de que las cosas buenas de la vida no son obra nuestra, sino que son dones de Dios.

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  Religious, Appreciation, Children

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