Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Professor Sandel's Outreach in Philosophical Ethics

The Times Profiles Professor Sandel's outreach programs in philosophical ethics here.

Would you switch a runaway trolley from one track to another if it meant killing one person instead of five? Would it be just as moral to push a person in front of the speeding trolley to stop it and save the five? What about a surgeon killing one healthy person and using his organs so that five people who needed organ transplants could live? Is that moral? Why not?


Check out Sandel's outreach website: http://justiceharvard.org/ co-produced by Harvard and PBS.

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