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JUSTICEWhat’s The Right Thing To Do?Reading Reports Introduction: Michael J. Sandel Michael Sandel is one of the most popular college professors in Harvard University. He has taught his undergraduate course “Justice” to more than 15,000 Harvard students over the 20 years, This book reveals Sandels secret recipe for timeless questions of law, justice, and morality. 1、THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER(唐) 2、THE CASE FOR CANNIBALISM(唐) 3、PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE(潘) 4、HOW TO MEASURE PLEASURE(潘) 5、FREE TO CHOOSE(葉) 6、WHO OWNS ME?(葉) 7、THIS LAND IS MY LAND(邱) 8、CONSENTING ADULTS(邱) 9、 HIRED GUNS(曾) 10、MOTHERHOOD: FOR SALE(曾) 11、MIND YOUR MOTIVE(張) 12、THE SUPREME RINCIPLE OF MORALITY(張) Contents THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? That’s the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five others, Sandel presents three similar moral conundrums—each one artfully designed to make the decision more difficult. As students stand up to defend their conflicting choices, it becomes clear that the assumptions behind our moral reasoning are often contradictory, and the question of what is right and what is wrong is not always black and white. THE CASE FOR CANNIBALISM  Sandel introduces the principles of utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, with a famous nineteenth century legal case involving a shipwrecked crew of four. After nineteen days lost at sea, the captain decides to kill the weakest amongst them, the young cabin boy, so that the rest can feed on his blood and body to survive. The case sets up a classroom debate about the moral validity of utilitarianism—and its doctrine that the right t