Author : Michael J. Sandel
Genre : Philosophy
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN : 9781429952682
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A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? Michael J. Sandel's "Justice" course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and this fall, public television will air a series based on the course. Justice offers readers the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students. This book is a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice, one that invites readers of all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways. Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, the moral limits of markets—Sandel dramatizes the challenge of thinking through these con?icts, 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.

Author : Michael J.. Sandel
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ISBN : 2226314997
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Quel travail mérite salaire ? Un gouvernement devrait-il être moralement neutre ? Qu'est-ce que la liberté ? Sommes-nous propriétaires de nous-mêmes ? Le patriotisme est-il une vertu ?... Michael J. Sandel excelle dans l'art d'aborder, sous un angle éthique, les questions politiques les plus complexes en les ramenant à des enjeux dont chacun peut aisément se saisir.

Author : Casper Jaspers
Genre : Business & Economics
Publisher : Prometheus
ISBN : 9789044648089
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The relationship between humans and technology is one of immense progress. It encompasses many life-changing inventions such as fire and electricity, which have had a positive impact on humanity overall. But technology is developing so rapidly that we rarely take a moment to reflect on whether we are shaping technology or whether it is shaping us. How much do you know about key technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and the internet of things? And do you understand how technology affects us and why ethics plays such an essential role in both its design and its real-world application? Technology and Governance allows you to get up to speed with fast-paced technological changes. The author takes complex technical ideas and distils them into user-friendly concepts. Even if you lack detailed knowledge of the mathematics behind deep learning or the computer code behind digital currencies, this book will provide an understanding of disruptive technology's present and future impact on society. Casper Jaspers is a tech entrepreneur and a corporate lawyer. He is a guest lecturer in the New Board Program (Nyenrode Business University) and a lecturer at the Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPO).

Author : Ted Peters
Genre : Computers
Publisher : ISD LLC
ISBN : 9781925679229
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Will advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) or IA (Intelligence Amplification) lead to the extinction of the human race as we know it? Or, will superintelligence lead to utopia? In this collection of thoughtful essays, we must first get clear on the question: is artificial intelligence actually intelligent or not? Only with an affirmative answer could our techies proceed toward their goal: the creation of a superintelligence that leads through transhumanism to a posthuman entity that would replace today's human. Should today's moderately intelligent human species voluntarily go extinct to make way for a more intelligent species to succeed us in evolutionary history? These scientific questions are addressed in this volume in light of their theological, ethical, and social implications.

Author : Justyna Miklaszewska
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN : 9781538150986
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This book investigates contemporary theories of social justice including John Rawls, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.

Author : Benjamin K. Sovacool
Genre : Political Science
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9781107041950
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This book explores how the idea of justice can give us a way to better assess and resolve energy challenges and problems.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Genre : Philosophy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN : 9780674976146
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In Michael Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by their swift embrace of a market economy—one whose communitarian ideas resonate with China’s own rich, ancient philosophical traditions. This volume explores the connections and tensions revealed in this unlikely episode of Chinese engagement with the West.

Author : Katherine Berrisford
Genre : Literary Criticism
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN : 9781351350891
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Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which can be considered one of the foundational books of the western political tradition, the focus is on problem-solving, and particularly on the generation and evaluation of alternative possibilities. Aristotle’s aim, in Politics, is to determine how best to organize a society. He looks in turn at several different type of organization – kingship, oligarchy and the polity, or rule in the hands of many – and evaluates the arguments for each in turn. But he takes the exercise further than his predecessors had done. Having concluded that rule by the aristocracy would be preferable, since it would mean rule by citizens capable of taking decisions on behalf of the society as a whole, Aristotle subjects his solution to a further checking process, asking productive questions in order to make a sound decision between alternatives. Politics was ground-breaking in its approach. Unlike previous thinkers, Aristotle based all his ideas on a practical assessment of how they would play out in the real world. Ultimately, Aristotle argues, the problem of self-interest means that the adoption of a mixed constitution – one based on carefully considered laws which aims at a balance of power between the people and the elite – is most likely to bring eudaemonia (happiness). It’s a conclusion firmly based on careful evaluation (not least the process of judging the adequacy of arguments) and the product of outstanding problem-solving skills.

Author : Anna Lukasiewicz
Genre : Social Science
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN : 9789811504662
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This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster. Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.

Author : Salman Khalid
Genre : Religion
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN : 9781457560330
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Contrary to political philosophies as varied as utilitarianism, socialism/communism, those advocating the welfare state, and Rawls’s, which are all constructed on the hypothesis that an inextricable nexus exists between distributive justice and equality, Justice: A Fresh Impression doubts the presumed nexus and argues that to see justice through the lens of equality is to misunderstand justice. Instead, this book presents an alternative foundation for rights—namely, that everyone is born free—not equal, but with an equal entitlement to all the resources of the planet. Justice illustrates that this revised premise, which blends the best elements of the free market model with those of socialism, extends larger space to human diversity, and also presents a steadier platform to fight poverty (through recognizing everyone’s equal right to the planet’s resources).