“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, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.” — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.” — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share
“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
“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
