Justice with Michael Sandel
Season 1 Episode 2 - Putting a Price Tag on Life/How to Measure Pleasure
9.0 ?
2009
Talk
Today, companies and governments often use Jeremy Benthams utilitarian logic under the name of cost-benefit analysis. Sandel presents some contemporary cases in which cost-benefit analysis was used to put a dollar value on human lie. The cases give rise to several objections to the utilitarian logic of seeking the greatest good for the greatest number. Should we always give more weight to the happiness of a majority, even if the majority is cruel or ignoble? Is it possible to sum up and compare all values using a common measure like money?
Episodes in Season 1
1
The Moral Side of Murder/The Case for Cannibalism
2
Putting a Price Tag on Life/How to Measure Pleasure
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3
Free to Choose/Who Owns Me?
4
The Land is My Land/Consenting Adults
5
Hired Guns?/For Sale: Motherhood
6
Mind Your Motive/The Supreme Principle of Morality
7
A Lesson In Lying/A Deal Is A Deal
8
What's A Fair Start?/What Do We Deserve?
9
Arguing Affirmative Action/What's The Purpose?
10
The Good Citizen/ Freedom Vs. Fit
11
The Claims Of Community/Where Our Loyaty Lies
12
