“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
“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is done. What matters is the motive, and the motive must be of a certain kind. What… — 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
“A growing body of work in social psychology offers a possible explanation for this commercialization effect. These studies highlight the difference between intrinsic motivations… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise,… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
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