“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain in base ones. Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, “an… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“[T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its value consists precisely in its… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“Toleration and freedom and fairness are values too, and they can hardly be defended by the claim that no values can be defended. So… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“And so, in the end, the question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.” — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“about runaway trolleys!” This is an example of what Kant would call heteronomous determination —doing something for the sake of something else, for the… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.” — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
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