Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Moral Side of Murder/The Case for Cannibalism
- Season 1 Putting a Price Tag on Life/How to Measure Pleasure
- Season 1 Free to Choose/Who Owns Me?
- Season 1 The Land is My Land/Consenting Adults
- Season 1 Hired Guns?/For Sale: Motherhood
- Season 1 Mind Your Motive/The Supreme Principle of Morality
- Season 1 A Lesson In Lying/A Deal Is A Deal
- Season 1 What's A Fair Start?/What Do We Deserve?
- Season 1 Arguing Affirmative Action/What's The Purpose?
- Season 1 The Good Citizen/ Freedom Vs. Fit
- Season 1 The Claims Of Community/Where Our Loyaty Lies
- Season 1 Debating Same-Sex Marriage/The Good Life
Justice - Season 1 Episode 9 Arguing Affirmative Action/What's The Purpose?
10.00 30 minutes Students discuss the pros and cons of affirmative action. Should we try to correct for inequality in educational backgrounds by taking race into consideration? Should we compensate for historical injustices such as slavery and segregation? Is the argument in favor of promoting diversity a valid one? How does it size up against the argument that a student’s efforts and achievements should carry more weight than factors that are out of his or her control and therefore arbitrary? When a university’s stated mission is to increase diversity, is it a violation of rights to deny a white person admission?
Sandel introduces Aristotle and his theory of justice. He believes that justice is about giving people their due, what they deserve.
