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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 97: Michael Sandel on Social Justice and the Self

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2014

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

On "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice" (1982) where Sandel critiques Rawls's version of liberalism as based on a bogus picture of us as purely choosing beings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:13.7

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0:24.2

You're listening to the Partial Examine Life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who are at one point

0:29.5

said I'm doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

0:32.8

Our question for episode 97 is something like which takes priority justice or the good.

0:38.5

And we'll be discussing the book Liberalism and the Limits of Justice by Michael J. Sandell from 1982.

0:45.2

You can join the discussion, get a link to the text and lots more information at harselyexaminelife.com.

0:50.7

This is Mark Lisenwire speaking justly from Medicine, Wisconsin.

0:54.0

This is Seth Paskin, day ontologically being himself in Austin, Texas.

0:59.6

This is Wes Aulon just in Boston, Massachusetts.

1:03.2

This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin.

1:06.8

So some of us possess our attributes and some of us are our attributes.

1:11.7

What about the ground rules? Do those in here in the discussion or they applied externally to the

1:16.5

discussion? Are they things the discussion possesses or are they inherent properties?

1:21.6

They're contingencies of the moral community.

1:24.3

The first one of those is try not to assume that our audience has read what we're talking about.

1:28.4

God, we've already failed that completely.

1:31.6

You won't get the jokes unless you've just you got to listen on and then go back to the beginning.

1:36.1

Now they will get the jokes eventually. It's a slow burn or has any other background in philosophy.

1:42.4

Number two, don't make arguments that hinge on something other than what we've agreed to read.

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