Michael J. Sandel «Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?»

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Автор Michael J. Sandel

Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982; 2nd ed. , 1998)

Liberalism and Its Critics, editor (1984)

Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (1996)

Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (2005)

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (2007)

Justice: A Reader, editor (2007)

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First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009

First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 2009

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ISBN: 978-1-84-614280-2

For Kiku, with love

CONTENTS

1. DOING THE RIGHT THING

2. THE GREATEST HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE / UTILITARIANISM

3. DO WE OWN OURSELVES? / LIBERTARIANISM

4. HIRED HELP / MARKETS AND MORALS

5. WHAT MATTERS IS THE MOTIVE / IMMANUEL KANT

6. THE CASE FOR EQUALITY / JOHN RAWLS

7. ARGUING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

8. WHO DESERVES WHAT? / ARISTOTLE

WHAT DO WE OWE ONE ANOTHER? / DILEMMAS OF LOYALTY

10. JUSTICE AND THE COMMON GOOD

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

1. DOING THE RIGHT THING

In the summer of 2004, Hurricane Charley roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and swept across Florida to the Atlantic Ocean. The storm claimed twenty-two lives and caused $11 billion in damage. ¹ It also left in its wake a debate about price gouging.

At a gas station in Orlando, they were selling two-dollar bags of ice for ten dollars. Lacking power for refrigerators or air-conditioning in the middle of August, many people had little choice but to pay up. Downed trees heightened demand for chain saws and roof repairs. Contractors offered to clear two trees off a homeowner’s roof—for $23,000. Stores that normally sold small household generators for $250 were now asking $2,000. A seventy-seven-year-old woman fleeing the hurricane with her elderly husband and handicapped daughter was charged $160 per night for a motel room that normally goes for $40. ²