Harvard University's
Justice with Micheal Sandel
http://justiceharvard.org/
An engaging twelve hours of lectures broken into twelve one-hour episodes. Before passing up on listening to these lectures, ask yourself, what was it you chose to do with those twelve hours instead? Next time you add your two cents worth to a political discussion, was it worth even that? When it comes time to vote, should you even be allowed?
If not all twelve lectures, I ask you to at least consider watching Episode One ".....philosophy doesn't teach you anything you don't already know. It's takes what you already know from familiar settings and presents it in a way that makes it strange. But once thought, cannot be unthought again" and Episode Eleven which basically has to do with loyalty; how it conflicts with morals.
"A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of a complete stranger no less than he would for a close friend. However, a truly virtuous man would have no friends."
Below are some fun trivia that came from the lectures:
Did you know.....
when figured out on a hourly basis,
makes more than $150.00/sec.
If he were to drop a $100.00 bill
&
stops long enough to pick it up,
he
LOSES
money!
Did you know.....
each make less than $300,000.00/yr
while
Judge Judy
makes $25,000,000.00/yr.
Did you know.....
one woman's egg
under the right circumstances could fetch
$50,000.00
while
one man's toss
would be lucky to make
$75.00!
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Turns out,
Harvard doesn't know the answers either.
Like the Bible,
raises more questions than answers;
answers vague at best.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. The important thing is never to stop questioning."
-Eistein-
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