安乐死是否应该得到法律许可？一条命是否不如十条命贵重？代孕合同是否合法？
在这个日益物质化的年代，我们的行为选择总在人性和物质之间摇摆不定。我们的社会正陷入尴尬的两难选择当中。我们甚至怀疑法律是否公正，因为法律无法回避个人的道德判断，无法做到中立。
这让习惯了传统道德观念和固定思维的我们感到不安，但这种不安，却能让我们理性精神保持清醒的状态，促使我们去寻找有关“公正”的“出路”。 “世界最受欢迎的老师之一”的迈克尔·桑德尔教授将带领我们在寻找公正的旅途中，领略思辨的价值和魅力。
“For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book―based on his legendary Harvard course―Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a more robust and thoughtful public discourse. “In terms we can all understand,” wrote Jonathan Rauch in The New York Times, Justice “confronts us with the concepts that lurk . . . beneath our conflicts.”
Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets―Sandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.
Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise―an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.
