原创力文档;Lead-in;Text;Text;His most celebrated publications include Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982), Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (1996), Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (2009), and What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (2012). ;2. Background?
In 2021, the author, Michael J. Sandel, published What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, and started his reflection on and questioning of the role of markets in modern society. “What Isn’t for Sale?” follows a similar theme and was originally published in The Atlantic in 2012.
With these works, the author aims to start a much-needed but long overdue “meaningful public debate on the proper roles of markets and market values in our society.” This is very much in line with the author’s understanding of the responsibility of political philosophy, that is, political philosophy that “tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible—clear enough that its arguments and concerns can be accessible to a nonacademic public.”;“Otherwise, it’s not possible really for political philosophers to generate debate that could possibly change existing understandings.” In this essay, the author uses rather simple language, clear reasoning and real-life examples to inspire people to think about a very serious issue.
According to the author, over the past three decades, markets and market values, while generating affluence and prosperity, have come to dominate people’s social life. As a result of the 2008 financial crisis, market triumphalism is questioned. Though reining in greed might partly solve the moral issue, the real problem today is that market mechanisms have been used to distribute a variety of social goods which were previously beyond the reach of markets.;Everything, from human beings to civic duties, is up for sale and it even seems appropriate to commercialize everything. This has led to inequality and corruption. Unfortunately, people have, so
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