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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Michael J. Sandel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

How much is one human life worth? Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? The Groton Public Library is expanding its Lifelong Learning program this fall with two six-week series on Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? And a series of TED Talks based on the popular web site of the same name. Which encourages us to ask: on what basis do we make our decisions? One for the videos themselves and another for the discussion. Students from all around the world discuss the topics Michael has brought up in his book, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do, and now, What Money Can't Buy. The course was called “Justice” and it was superb. From time immemorial - or at least since Spike Lee's 1989 movie Do the Right Thing - men and women have asked, like the subtitle of Michael Sandel's new book, "What's the right thing to do?"[1] Every year a thousand or so Harvard undergraduates seeking an answer to this question sign up for "Moral Reasoning 22: Justice," Professor Sandel's renowned introductory course and the most popular offering in that university's history. This way the video thread will not be flooded with posts that will get the videos lost. Two years ago, Michael Sandel (Harvard Professor of Government) offered an online course to Harvard alumni. Aristotle's approach to justice is no exception. If a just and prosperous society requires that individuals be assigned goals appropriate to their natural abilities, what room is there for personal choice and freedom? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Will you ever steal a drug that your child needs to survive? In his book In his concluding chapter, “Justice and the Common Good,” Sandel teaches us that doing the right thing, or justice is always about values. This is the title of a book by Michael Sandel which was a NY Times bestseller.