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MICHAEL J. SANDEL

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he teaches political philosophy. His course "Justice" has enrolled more than 15,000 Harvard students. Sandel's writings have been published in 21 languages. His books include What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets(2012); Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2009); The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (2007); Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (2005); Democracy's Discontent (1996); andLiberalism and the Limits of Justice(1982; 2nd ed., 1998).

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Tim Beaumont is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Theory at Harvard. His main interests lie in Ethics, Political Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Social Science. He is currently writing a thesis on the thought of John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Jascha Smilack of HarvardX is the Lead Course Developer for JusticeX. He holds a PhD from Harvard in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and taught at Tufts University for two years before returning to Harvard, where he has worked for ten years.

Joe

Joe Muller is a graduate student in Harvard University’s Department of Government writing on the political outlook of Plato’s early dialogues. In the past he has worked as a TA for the department's intro course in political theory as well as its surveys of ancient and modern political philosophy.

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Lecture 1 - Doing the Right Thing

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Lecture 3 - Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham

Lecture 4 - Utilitarianism: J.S. Mill

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Lecture 5 - Libertarianism: Free-market philosophy

Lecture 6 - Libertarianism: Do we own ourselves?

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