Episode 98: Guest Michael Sandel Against Market Society
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2014
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Interviewing him on his book "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets" and continuing the discussion of his first book, "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Wes Allwyn here. If you'd like to learn more about my thoughts on Michael Sandel's |
| 0:04.4 | liberalism in the limits of justice, I've written an essay that you give you a better idea of some |
| 0:08.8 | of my criticisms. To read it, please go to ParsleyXamonLife.com slash Sandel. |
| 0:22.0 | You're listening to the Parsley Xamon Life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who are at one |
| 0:25.9 | point said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. A question for episode 98 |
| 0:30.8 | is something like, why should some things not be for sale? You'll be talking with Michael J Sandel |
| 0:36.0 | about his books, What Money Can't Buy, The Moral Limits of Markets From 2012, and some more about |
| 0:41.8 | liberalism in the limits of justice from 1982. You can join the discussion, get links to the texts, |
| 0:46.9 | and lots more information at ParsleyXamonLife.com. This is Mark Linton Meyer talking to you from |
| 0:51.2 | Madison, Wisconsin. This is Seth Pascon, not for sale in Austin, Texas. This is Wes Allwyn and |
| 0:56.9 | Boston, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. And Michael, where are you? |
| 1:02.3 | I'm in Brookline, Massachusetts. Oh, I'm in Brookline as well, actually. I just say, I just say |
| 1:09.2 | Boston. Wow, we could have given you some on-site technical support, but we did not. |
| 1:17.7 | Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. It's great to be with you. |
| 1:21.2 | So we had a very spirited discussion about liberalism in the limits of justice that I know you've |
| 1:25.6 | not heard. Just last week, we can, I think, get some more into some of the points of contention |
| 1:30.7 | about that later. But what I'd like to focus on to start is the couple of main feces in What Money Can't Buy. |
| 1:36.5 | I think if people don't read philosophy or are a little intimidated by just picking up |
| 1:40.6 | Descartes or Plato or especially an academic book like liberalism in the limits of justice, |
| 1:46.1 | this book is just made for popular consumption. It's just all concrete. It's all current events. |
| 1:52.0 | It's related to a specific point in time that you say that this book is being driven by |
| 1:57.3 | the financial crisis and our what our reaction should have been to it, which is to re-evaluate |
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