Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"

Caption notes

Michael Sandel uses trolley diversions, a person pushed from a bridge and organ-transplant hypotheticals to elicit judgments, ask for reasons and test those reasons against variations. The first part contrasts reasoning about consequences with reasoning about acts, rights and duties. The second uses the Dudley and Stephens shipwreck case to examine necessity, numbers, lotteries and consent. Students’ defenses and objections are not settled conclusions of the course. Sandel exposes tensions between their reasons and develops questions about the source of rights, fair procedures and the moral significance of consent. The lesson models revision between particular judgments and general principles, rather than supplying a standard answer to every dilemma.