Relating Philosophy to the World: Michael Sandel's Vision

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This episode of In Conversation With features a conversation between Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University, and Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute.
In his latest book, _The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?_, Michael Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Through the years, he has built a powerful toolbox for the critical assessment of our current life and institutional choices. So how do we move from critical thinking to a constructive re-engagement and positive transformation of our world?

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@user-hg5bd7wd8h 4 күн бұрын

Cannot agree more! It starts with admitting that humans are not biological objects but a spiritual beings connected with each other in non-material ways. Then it starts to square up into different way of thinking and governing our behavior.

@danishlewis2378 Жыл бұрын

I found it difficult to connect philosophy to the world, especially in emerging countries. But thank you, Mr. Sandel, for your wonderful insight. Can't wait to read your next book.

@BCtruth 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps the greatest book that conects philosophy to the world is Atlas Shrugged, followed closely by The Fountainhead. They are quite long, so another option is "Anthem". All three are by the same author.

@ancientbriton7295 12 күн бұрын

I haven't read Sandel or Rand , but I know which one I wouldn't bother picking up. Which of her ideas do you recommend?

@BCtruth 12 күн бұрын

@@ancientbriton7295 Her best idea is a clarification and integration of Aristotle's first Law of Logic (Law of Identity // A is A)...her morality and philosophy follow from that. read "Anthem", then "Philosophy: Who Needs It", both are short but packed with insights and clarity.

@ancientbriton7295 11 күн бұрын

@@BCtruth Thank you. I will check them out when I have more time.

@erumkhan6296 Жыл бұрын

Beautifully presented.

@animikhaghosh6536 Жыл бұрын

He is so handsome ❤

@javierrodriguez3098 7 ай бұрын

Many need to broaden their sense of “shared lives”.

@aleidacubides7751 Жыл бұрын

ohh where r those platforms that I wish to join, please. I have been thinking a lot about the migration crisis & freedom to move.

@JeremyHelm 5 ай бұрын

25:40 giving up on the human

@naveenadduri5091 3 ай бұрын

Isskon banglore ') of where last supper? Mr me Asia,

@naveenadduri5091 4 ай бұрын

Hi hello ma'am today

@claudiamanta1943 4 ай бұрын

17:52 I doubt it very much. There are intra-cultural variations in the cognitive landscape, let alone amongst various cultures. There could, and should, be a common ground but it has been purposefully poisoned, fact that has led to individual cultures disintegration. It’s a sort of iatrogenic socio-cultural schizophrenia.

@Zagg777 Жыл бұрын

“Our shared life”. That’s fine for a people who consider themselves a people, who consider themselves as sharing a life. That’s far from the multiracial, multiracial US and much of the contemporary West. Any approach to politics that attempts to reads the latter in terms of the former is doomed to failure. It’s quite likely disingenuous.